2011 CrossFit Games - Behind the Scenes: Part 1

Join Sevan Matossian as he captures athletes, judges, spectators and staff at the 2011 Reebok CrossFit Games, providing a look at what goes on before, during and after the events. In Part 1, Matossian chronicles the first event of the weekend: the beach workout.

Early Friday morning, HQ Director of Training Dave Castro arrives at the Santa Monica Pier for the first workout of this year's Games. The athletes assemble and provide their impressions of the event ahead of them.

"The challenge is gonna be, 'Are you gonna panic while you're out there or are you just gonna do what you're supposed to do?' You trained all year for this thing, man, the last thing you want to do is have your head get in a weird space," flowmaster and judge Chuck Carswell says.

Before the event begins, Joshua Bridges questions his chances of winning.

"This is out of my comfort zone, so we'll see how it goes," he says. "I hate running and swimming, so it should be pretty fun."

After finishing the challenge in third place with a big smile on her face, original Nasty Girl Annie Sakamoto says, "To me, this is the epic way to kick the whole thing off: at the beach, in the saltwater. I couldn't ask for more."

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[trecuck]

"Why don't you guys just lift it up?" LOL

[CROSSFITBENCHMARKKO]

21 years old and not 1 drink in his life... what life :)

[aored123]

i hope they do the behind the scenes again, its really cool

[TheCFchan]

30:19 - 'Hey Boz! You got the time?'

[hosfit]

Wonder why Ben Smith has inflamed nipples? Thats weird.

[ChickenM4ster]

Guys i dont try to hate this event at all, I love it big time BUT, i give you a 1 big huge bet that im very sure few of the Players are were on the Juice Steroids HGH or some other Juice, and its just sad in this event are not making any juice steroids/hgh test before entering to this competition. Believe me People on the Olympics few of them were on the Juice and they got caught you think in this small event this people wont use any juice ? heck yeah ... .

[ChickenM4ster]

with all respect to all this players and everyone, i have a question ?

Any players from this event are they all tested for Steroids/HGH human growth hormone Use, are they all tested or is no need to be tested ? Do they test for that staff at all ?

[Dalt49]

feel sorry for Mikko before the workout knowing how it ends for him

[korvix]

@trecuck clean and jerk the truck lol

[ninjabic]

@dblacky1977 It's like a peach with no hair.. a naked peach