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Dates: March 9-10 Location: Turkish Gymnastics Federation. Istanbul, Turkey Competition Overview Another busy week for the “2024-25 B.Friendly Fitness World Tour“, it’s week two of the CrossFit Games Open and also the second stop of the tour. Brian Friend finds himself in Istanbul, Turkey for the Eurasia Throwdown Finals after spending a week in Riyadh,
Dates: February 29-March 2 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Competition Overview SandClash 2024 will be the fifth annual edition. Starting in 2019 the competition featured 75 athletes from 11 gyms from around the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It has seen an increase in the number of athletes participating, and the number of attendees every year; and
After 20 stops in 26 weeks it’s time to reflect on the biggest lessons learned. These are my own personal opinions when it gets down to it, but they are largely founded in consistent observations and repetitive conversations from several competitions during this offseason. Who, What, Where, When, and How to Watch This is what
Image Credit: Picsil Pamplona, Spain The final stop (stop 20!!!) of the “2023-24 B.Friendly Fitness Offseason World Tour” brings us back to Europe in what was a late add to the tour. We were in Spain back in September for the Madrid Championships and have returned in February for a much less well known competition,
A late add to the 2023-2024 “B.Friendly World Tour”, I am on the way to Spain this week for the 20th and final stop on the tour before the Open (I measure CrossFit years from Open to Open), the Picsil Pamplona Arena Games. This competition came on my radar relatively recently as I started seeing
Image Credit: The Fittest Experience Taylor, Texas, USA This is stop 19 of 20, and it brings me to Taylor, Texas (north of Austin) for what was the 16th edition of this competition. I learned a ton about this competition and its history this weekend through conversations with athletes, coaches, event organizers, and staff who
Image Credit : Rafael Paredes Wodapalooza was one of the first competitions I ever went to. After going to the North Central Regionals in 2014, and the CrossFit Games in 2016, it was WZA in 2017 which was my third ever elite CrossFit competition I attended as a fan. In one way or another, I
Other than the CrossFit Games themselves, The Fittest Experience (TFX) has to be the longest running CrossFit competition. Starting back in 2008, this will be the 16th iteration of the competition. This year there are over 1200 athletes competing in over 30 divisions all competing at the Williamson County Expo Center. TFX Throwdowns For the
The final stop for the 2023 calendar year (but not the final stop on our offseason tour which will continue with Wodapalooza, Fittest of the Coast, and the Fittest Experience in January), brings us to Milan, Italy for a competition which began over a decade ago, the Fall Series Throwdown. One of the Oldest in
Image Credit: Fittest of the Coast Charleston, South Carolina, USA This is the fifth year of the Fittest of the Coast and the competition has grown every year. Beginning in 2020 with just over 200 athletes, it is now a three-day competition with two competition floors, an offsite running event for all individual divisions, and
