The PFAA is Formed

Athletes in the CrossFit Games Community have banned together to form the PFAA, or the Professional Fitness Athlete’s Association. There’s a lot to explain here, so we will turn to our friends at the Morning Chalk Up to explain it all in their article.

Now that you’ve studied up, MY thoughts on all this are as follows: 

Ew.

Okay, maybe I am progressively stunted in this manner, but I think this is such a bad idea. First and foremost, CrossFit is still it’s own thing, so the only say the PFAA will currently have in anything is simply the ability to boycott if they don’t like what they hear about the future of the Games. Which, by the way, is something Castro feared would happen as a side effect of this whole last month of business.

In my humblest of opinions, CrossFit is supposed to be an ever-changing and ever-growing test created by whoever is appointed, in most cases Dave Castro. The test is supposed to take the fittest folks on earth, put them through a week-ish of the unknown and the unknowable, and see who’s fitness and adaptability can bring them to the top. 

The PFAA is looking to change that, and I hate it. It says right in the article, they want a say in how the season runs, and they want a say in making the competition more FARE. Get outtttt of here with that!!! There were a few athletes last year whining like babies about being DQ’d from events, or claiming the test wasn’t fair. Life isn’t fair, so shut up about that first of all, but also if you were the fittest you would still be in the competition til the end. It’s no coincidence that the 3x fittest lady and the 4x fittest dude both won. They adapted to it all, won where they were strongest, and survived where they were weakest. You don’t hear them complaining about fairness. 

Granted I will admit, the Games didn’t go the greatest last year what with all the new changes, there were some definite hiccups, but that wasn’t Castro’s fault that was Greg’s fault for changing everything. Greg wanted the Games dead, Dave wants them to thrive. I just think we ought to let him do his thing his way, with the support of CrossFit’s new regime, and enjoy the test. We should NOT, however, sit across from him at a long table and start making demands. 

I may be in the minority, but there is no way that this ends well, if by well we mean a continued unbiased assessment of the ability for a CrossFit athlete to apply their fitness to an unknown and unknowable test. What do you think?

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