Reebok cuts ties with CrossFit

  1. CrossFit “workout of the day” is bad coaching.  Every person training should have an individual prescription designed to meet their fitness goals.
  2. CrossFit CEO Greg Glassman has long been controversial.

This time Glassman’s recklessness is going to cost a lot of people a lot of money.

It’s time to reevaluate the company.

Fitness brands including Reebok have cut ties with CrossFit after the company’s CEO posted a tweet making light of George Floyd’s death. …

Mr Glassman has now apologised, saying CrossFit “will not stand for racism”. …

Since Mr Glassman’s tweet about George Floyd, hundreds of affiliate gyms have removed CrossFit from their branding. A spreadsheet tracking all of the gyms that are rebranding currently lists 227 fitness centres distancing themselves from CrossFit. …

BBC

Former gymnast, World CrossFit Champion 2015 and 2016, Katrín Davíðsdóttir, is pissed.  Reevaluating whether she wants to continue with the company.

Kurt Thomas photos

In tribute of America’s first male Gymnastics superstar, International Gymnast magazine posted some of their photos on one gallery page.

 

Kocian top UCLA academic student athlete

Click PLAY or watch it on Twitter.

diversity on U.S. National Teams

I don’t recall seeing any study on this topic, but seems to me U.S. National Teams, at least in recent years, are at least as ethnically diverse as the general population.

The biggest factor, I reckon, is which American families can afford the very high costs of elite Gymnastics training.

Things are getting better.

award winning dance photo

Ken Browar and Deborah Ory of NYC Dance Project received the second-place award in the People category for their shot of six dancers suspended in the air amid performance.

The scene is a part of “Night Journey,” choreography by the Martha Graham Company that’s based on the Greek myth of Oedipus and Jocasta.

International Photography Awards

#BlackLivesMatter

Protests at the moment were inspired by the murder of George Floyd by a white cop.

#BlackLivesMatter is the most important hashtag of these protests.

Everyone knows that all lives matter. But don’t make that specious argument.

Blacks die in police custody at a far higher rate than any other race.  That’s what we are trying to address.

 

Shilese Jones – that was easy

Click PLAY or watch it on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_s480HDaAj/
 
Click PLAY or watch some kitchen choreography on Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B-XXYWAplOj/