The Crossfit Games 11 Open

 

battling the games open 1st wod

 The past few weeks has seen the start of the crossfit games 11 open. This new format means that over the course of 6 weeks, a new workout is announced at the start of each week and is performed by crossfit athletes all over the world. Once an athlete has completed the prescribed workout either by video submission or judged by a registered affiliate then their score will be posted online to be compared with everyone else. The top 60 athletes from each region will have the chance to compete at their regionals, from here only three will make it to the crossfit games finals. 

On friday night it was on! the southern crossfit boys hosted the 2nd crossfit games open workout. The workout itself consisted of a 15min amrap of 9 deadlifts 45kg/70kg, 12 competition pushups and 15 box jumps 20"/24". I personally found this wod much easier to punch out than the 1st games wod, the movements are fairly basic with little technical requirements. Yet again, the atmosphere was awesome. lots of cheering and shouting could be heard every heat without fail and all contestants got an enthusiastic applause after finishing. I managed to pump out 9 rounds, 6 push ups (for a score of 339) which im pretty happy with. The top score in the world for this workout was recorded by a West Aussie, Crossfit Perth local Jean-Claude Jardim demolished the rest of the competition with a score of 629 (17 rounds+8pushups) a truely amazing performance.



The area all set for games open wod 2 at southern crossfit



Thanks to all the Southern Crossfit trainers and athletes for putting together these events, with such an easy going, yet competitive atmoshpere, im looking forward to competing in the following fridays to come.