Haha I saw that Crossfit moron's video linked on another forum. Check out the comments.
Here's what said bro had to say about Dave Tate:
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Dave's responses were in fact intelligent; they were just lacking in exposure. I wouldn't fault someone for failing to see at first glance that a kipping pullup is actually the mechanically faster & more efficient path for a core-to-extremities contraction that moves the body up to the bar, back down and back up again.
(That's a complex movement that people always oversimplify -- but up-down is not how the body can most efficiently move. The kipping pullup uses the stronger core musculature first, and the dimensions of the limbs and positions of the joints that must close determines the rest. The butterfly kip is in fact the fastest and most efficient path for the body to meet the bar and return.)
It's unfortunate, at this meeting it doesn't seem like Dave Tate really got as much as he could and should have. He didn't seem to get that fitness is about work capacity and that work capacity is about foot-pounds per second across various time domains. And, that this fitness is most central and most essential to the broadest applications of human performance.
He needs to wake up and realize just how narrowly his specialty applies to human performance, in comparison to the work capacities we develop. He seems like an independent thinker and self-educated guy who really values truth, so in a different context (when he's not in front of a camera, perhaps) he may be able to set his Public Relations face and ego aside and start recognizing CrossFit's mastery of the art and science of GPP.
Comment #17 - Posted by: Cash Reynolds at October 6, 2009 6:09 PM
Bro just schooled Dave Fucking Tate in weightlifting bro.
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Haha I saw that Crossfit moron's video linked on another forum. Check out the comments.
Here's what said bro had to say about Dave Tate:
Bro just schooled Dave Fucking Tate in weightlifting bro.
Various dimensions of time huh? Funny how I never factored that into training before. Maybe I am just tired but I think he flipped over the bar a few too many times before posting that.
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Haha, D bag made the video private. Guess he didn't like the comments!
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