r/crossfit • u/traderjames7 • 5d ago
Austin Hatfield equipment fail
Terrible luck for Hatfield as his GHD breaks in WFP Men's Pro3 event.
Anyone know what'll happen to his score?
Could hear the production team in the background saying 'stay away from Austin Hatfield'...
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u/arch_three CF-L2 5d ago
Do you have the clip, link, or timestamp? It happens. Sure they’ll figure out way to post a score.
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u/traderjames7 5d ago
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u/traderjames7 5d ago
Apparently Hatfield has been awarded a time of 6:53, which is good for 16th.
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u/rhinonick74 5d ago
I wonder how this time was calculated?
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u/ProChoiceAtheist15 5d ago
Does anyone else realize this is because of how athletes now do the machine incorrectly? Because everyone now sits on the FORWARD half of the pad, they slide INTO the foot plate section. They should be on the BACK half of the pads, so that gravity pulls them AWAY.
That’s why when it broke, he slide down the front. If your GHD breaks, you should absolutely fall off the back.
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u/Specialist-Flan1882 5d ago
His GHD didn't break because of this.
Hip positioning is its own drama piece but its completely irrelevant to how the machine broke
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u/ProChoiceAtheist15 5d ago
I didn’t say it did. BUT He repeatedly slid down and slammed INTO the foot plate section with a weighted ball. You don’t think that matters since the machine is literally not supposed to see force in that direction?
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u/Specialist-Flan1882 5d ago
Literally the first sentence in your comment is blaming him falling due to "how athletes do their GHD'S"
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u/ProChoiceAtheist15 5d ago
Literally you have to read ALL THE WORDS to get the point. My last sentence said “that’s why when it broke, he slid down….”
The point is explaining why he fell THE WAY HE DID, not explaining WHY HE FELL
I DID NOT SAY “the reason it broke is bc he does them wrong.” One sentence out of multiples DOES NOT make the point. Goddammit I hate people who can’t read
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u/Specialist-Flan1882 5d ago
"Does anyone else realize this is because of how athletes now do the machine incorrectly?"
You just can't write. Cope Harder
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u/Admirable_Market_285 5d ago
I noticed in the heat before this that the GHD in that lane looked very loose. Maybe he contributed but it was fucked already.
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u/Babablacksheep2121 5d ago
Only someone with proper knowledge of mechanics would notice this. Thank you.
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u/BreakerStrength CF-L3 5d ago
Context?
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u/traderjames7 5d ago
WFP Tour Stop 2 - sorry I keep forgetting no-one knows about WFP
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u/H_aha_h 5d ago
The WFP post game studio covers this well. Worth a watch otherwise too. Annie, Katrin, Dereck Forrester and Seth Page have been having good talks and analysis there after the events. Another thing that WFP has been nailing, really impressed with the athlete intelligence and ability to analyze from Annie and Katrin.
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u/Sammy-PopOfTheTops 5d ago
Luck? That is really bad from the organisers. Very lucky not to be a serious injury.
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u/Ok-Budget112 2d ago
I saw a interview from the Games (Sevan?) where Katie Henninger saying she personally rowed 1000 m on each of the rowers over 2 days to make sure they were calibrated the same and built properly. I think it was 50+ rowers?
Impressive, doesn’t look like WFP have that kind of QC yet.
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u/traderjames7 5d ago
How was Gui credited with hitting 430 when he failed 2 reps and finished with 420?
Even the commentators thought Austin should've been the winner with his 422 lift.
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u/TulioCM 5d ago
Gui did 430 instead of 420. When he was trying 430 it was actually 440. He and the judge miss counted the plates. He explained in his IG stories
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u/traderjames7 5d ago
Thanks - event was hard to follow with judges not updating the weight numbers correctly and then the director missed big lifts. Honestly ruined it.
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u/RidingRedHare 4d ago edited 4d ago
On his last good lift, Guy lifted the bar (45)+red(110)+2xblue(2x90)+yellow(70)+white(20)+green(5).
45+110+180+70+20+5=430.0
u/Optimal-Relation2089 5d ago
I didn’t understand this either. Maybe he hit 430 but the broadcast didnt show it?
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u/Floracled 5d ago
This WFP stream is an utter shit show. They posted the event times with AM/PM all mixed up, so you had to do the math from PST and try to figure out what time the event started. It’s totally unclear. Lost me at that point. I’m not going to sit through Teams or “Challenger” which I don’t understand.
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u/Otherwise_Use_4631 5d ago
He dropped his wallball over the top of his GHD. Then when we got back on, after a few reps (you could see the stem moving a lot) then just broke away. Austin landed on the cross beam right on his ass.