(music) Josh Bridges is a ferocious competitor. Announcer: Josh Bridges is your new leader. Josh Bridges can walk to the finish line. Bridges: Fuck yeah! Fuck yeah! A couple of athletes on both sides here are veterans who need to have a big day three. Starting with Josh Bridges, who finds himself on the outside looking in on day three. Currently in seventh place. Bridges: Now we've got a--it's about a 10, 15-foot putt. If I put it in, I'm golden. If I miss it, I'm probably going to be hanging out for awhile. (beep) I crossed the finish line, and I kind of looked around, kinda saw where I was at. I was like, there's already a few people finished. I was like, "Ah," I was like--I just had a bad feeling. I was like, "Yeah, I don't think I got it." We'll see. Ah, fuck. I think they'll say here in a minute. Matossian: Should we look on my phone? Sure. If you want to break my heart. Aw, fuck. I don't know. It's going to be so fucking close. Oh shit. I don't know, man. I don't think I did. I'm going to be in sixth. Nope, sixth. Matossian: What are you thinking? Ah, I don't know. Fucking shitty. I've got a longer off-season. That's what I'm thinking. Matossian: There's really no consoling words are there? No. No, you dump your heart into this sport, so many hours in the gym, you know? And it comes down to seven workouts. You know, I came out and I did the best I could on the workouts. Just some really good competition this year. Hey, you can win this. Don't talk like that to me. I don't want to hear that. Don't say that. Alright, do you want a Pop Tart? Announcer: Here comes Brooke Ence. Brooke Ence, one clean away! And she has won the 2015 California Regional. Brooke Ence will hit that, and the rookie gets her first career victory at the CrossFit Games. Brooke Ence is your new event leader. Announcer 2: The rookie shows us what she can do. The Open starts in three days, and I leave today for London. I'm going to be in Europe filming a movie while doing the Open, and continuing to train to get back to the CrossFit Games for the next two months. And I'm scared shitless. But, if you're not scared and you don't feel nervous about something, I don't think it's something you should be doing. Going riding. I always wanted to act or be in movies, and it literally fell in my lap. I got a phone call. I found out shortly after that it was Wonder Woman. Who doesn't want to be a superhero, let alone in a superhero movie, flying or slicing people up? I've always liked movies like that, so I was really really excited. Brooke Ence, 16.2, CrossFit Black Five, Manchester, England. 16.4 in Walford, England. 16.5, somewhere four hours south of Naples, Italy. I was in the gym twice a day and got as much done as I possibly could. Dumbbells. Rogue was able to send over a little bit of equipment for me. I had some heavy dumbbells, heavy kettlebell. It was, you know, hanging my muscle-ups in a tree outside, handstand push-ups outside in the grass on the side of a building. This is my regional prep. Luckily, actually, we did a lot of hiking and walking, and hills everywhere. I'm going to work out, and then we have rehearsal at 2:00. We can't tell you what we're going to be rehearsing or then we'd have to kill you. The last couple weeks before I came home were probably some of the toughest because I was really starting to feel the stress of what was coming up. This is one of the moments when I'm supposed to film myself. Not going to cry anymore. I have horseback riding in 30 minutes, and then I have to do 16.1 for the second time. It's going to be ok. It's going to be ok. I almost said no. You know, I train year round for the CrossFit Games and I was worried that I would actually disappoint people if I went and did this. Like I'd come home and I'd go to regionals, and maybe I don't qualify. I'll be back. Uh, I will definitely not go out on this. Sucks. Oh well. I just didn't get into the gym as much as I should have. I relied on what I felt like I was capable of instead of actually going out and doing it and being ready for it. I was like, "I'll be good." There was a lot of times last year I remember being like, "I should probably go do a workout," and I just wouldn't. I'm just really excited to go back and try to redeem myself from last year, and so-- Josh Bridges, 16.1 Woodland: Josh Bridges. He dominates. 365 reps, gets the win, and for the second time. Josh Bridges gets the even win. Bridges: End up winning the workout. Posted the video, and the internet world did not like it. I mean, this is (indecipherable). This isn't me blaming it up or anything like that. I thought I was hitting the standard. I mean, I don't go to Invictus to do my Open workouts because I think it's going to allow me to cheat. That's not the kind of person I am. I don't want to cheat to win anyways. I don't stand for that. Going back, I did send the video in to CrossFit on Friday evening, and they told me it was ok, so that was the kind of thing that kind of stung a little bit is the fact that they did say it was ok, and they were like, afterwards were like, "Well, eh." But I also felt like Dave was in a really tight spot. I apologized to Dave. I was like, "I apologize for putting you in this scenario because this sucks for you as much as it sucks for me, and it sucks for CrossFit, and it sucks for the"--the whole scenario just sucked. Josh Bridges last week suffers that major penalty in 16.4, so he has 15 percent of his reps taken away 16.5, Josh Bridges, SoCal Region. That clearly upset him. A mad Josh Bridges is a dangerous Josh Bridges. (cheering) Josh Bridges is looking to assess a major penalty on the California Regional when he heads down there. He is in touch with his anger 100 percent. I think Dan could be a repeat. He's been around long enough that I don't think any of this stuff's going to trip him up. I think Josh is certainly capable of making it back. I think everyone's waiting to see how he's going to do on the deadlifts, but he's capable. He's a home run hitter too, so I think he's going to do well on some of these workouts. I think the women is wide open. I have no clue. The really tricky thing about the regional this year is Brooke Ence. It's all basically--she should win it, but she took a couple months off and went to Italy to film a movie, and that's really, like, I think, where the drama is going to unfold. The cameras should stay close to her, because she-- she may just fucking emotionally implode, because she knows she can go to the Games, and she knows she can win the Games, but she might not even make it through these regionals because we don't know what she's been doing for two months in Italy. Ence: It's funny, I keep reminding myself that I don't--it's good I'm nervous. But I don't need to be nervous. I do this literally everyday. Not compete, but train. I'll be really really nervous until the moment I do my first snatch, and then it won't matter. He knows we're leaving him. We never leave him. You logged out of your social media? I am--I'm going dark. Is this the first time in history that you've ever logged out of your social media? For longer than like an hour, yeah. Actually, let's be real. Longer than like five minutes. The official regional song. (2 Pac's "There U Go" playing) You're feeling the nerves now. It's building. I've got it in the pit right now. I've got a nice little feel. Damn. Just gotta loosen up. And if you eat an apple from the bottom, you can eat the whole thing. It's easier. Literally, if you eat it from the bottom, the core sort of disappears. It doesn't get, like, hard. It's really easy to eat. I think these guys should have to wear dresses when they wear their Oly shoes. Their high heels. Before this regionals came out I told myself, "Whatever Dave announces is gonna be good." You know the snatch ladder--I love that workout, and the funny thing is, I've never hit--265 is going to be a PR. So when I hit my two reps at 265 I'm going to PR twice that day. So it's going to be good. Stay composed. It'll probably happen at some point this weekend. Yeah. Not freak out. Back's probably going to hurt, and you're still going to crush it. Announcer: Welcome to Del Mar, home of the California Regional for the 2016 Reebok CrossFit Games. (beep) This could set the tone for the entire weekend of competition. Bridges coming in very motivated. More hair equals more muscle, and you are just bigger and stronger that way. I'm not sure if Brooke was missing a handful of reps or if there was an issue somewhere, but this is not something that we would normally see from her. So close. So good. Oh, baby. Good! Good. Fuck yeah. That felt so fucking good. Shit man, that was-- didn't think she'd fail the first one. I think she was probably just a little antsy out the gate, but she stuck to her game plan, got it all done. It's faster than she did it in training, so-- My wife is Brooke Ence. Pretty cool. Hot out the gate there, huh? (laughs) Yeah. So there's no correct thing to say to her when it comes to CrossFit and the workouts and everything. It's like, you gotta just be there. If she does really great in a workout, I'm like, really excited and like a fanboy at the same time, so I'm like running up there all giddy, and you gotta tone that shit down. You gotta hold that shit in like a man, and don't let it show, because the second she sees me happy or excited, she can-- she takes it and starts thinking about it, so I just gotta be there, just be kind of like, "You good? You good?" "Alright, well I'm just gonna be over here now." Just hands off. Sit. Oh, what a good boy. Waiting for her to come home. She's been gone for, like, it's like almost May. She's been gone since February. Earn it. Earn it. Earn it. Aw. Fuck yeah I'm excited man. Roll over. Haven't had my wife. I've been just sitting in here eating PB and J's just waiting for her to come home. Oh my god! Oh my god! Are you wearing Birkenstocks? Yes. What? Hi! Where have you been? My friend Harry, she went home and her dog--
Come here, come here. --and her dog wouldn't even look at her. Mmmm. This was the longest day ever. Good to see you. Has he been crying all day? Yeah. Who? Me or the dog? You. Are you sick of Dad? You're going to have a rude awakening when you don't get to sleep in the bed anymore. She got back, she was a head case. Wanna go to the gym? Do you want to go to the gym? I don't know. Maybe. She hadn't been squatting, but she had also been just kind of stressing herself out because she got just thrown back into the mix of everything. The biggest issue would be my left knee tendon stuff, burning. Basically I'm ok with I won't be 100 percent at regionals, but hopefully I make it to the Games and have more time to be 100 percent at the Games. It says, "How HQ originally intended to announce this year's individual regional events." From video on phone: Listen up! There is a storm coming like nothing you have ever seen, and not a one of you is prepared for it. And not one of you is prepared for it. Individual Event 2 is a variation of the CrossFit hero workout, Nate. Not as fun. Not as fun? No. Why? Four strict muscle-ups is a lot. 10 rounds. I got home from Europe. I was home for a few days and it was already time to head out to Utah for a few days for mock regionals with my coaches. It's not really a lot of cardio, so we'll see how much muscle endurance I have. And then Nate, you know, the strict muscle-up, the only thing that really makes me nervous is the standard and how it's judged. Goddamnit. That one right there? That one felt the best. That makes sense. (indecipherable) the two before that where you have a really quick transition, so it's happening fast, and it makes it look--
Bridges: Better? No, it makes it look like it was a kipping muscle-up, but I'm trying to look at that. I just try to get to here fast, because I know once I'm there I'm fine. Right. There you go. Ah, fuck. That's better. Yeah. I'll work on that a little bit., That one's a hero workout and so those are always really--make you fight, and, you know, when you're in the middle of them it's easy to be like, you know, "I'm hurting. This is--whatever. It's not a big deal. It's just a workout," and, you know, you're doing it for a purpose. (beep) Announcer: Twenty minutes of upper body torture underway. He's like a dang piston. Interesting pacing from Josh Bridges. The pace for Brooke has slowed down a lot in between reps on the muscle-ups from the first two rounds. A little run to the kettlebell. I think that's awesome for Josh. Run to the kettlebell. Different mindset completely. Stalking his prey here in round 9 of 10. Josh Bridges closing that interval down. This, for Brooke, is one of those workouts that's gonna be damage control. Why? Bridges hits one. Bridges hits two! They're onto the wall at the same exact time. Can Lucero hold off Josh Bridges? Oh my god, here we go. Bridges takes the lead! Runs to the kettlebell! He'll be racing for the event win, a possible event record, rep for rep. One rep left! Christian Lucero will sprint down the floor. It's not going to be an event record, but it's going to be so close. It's an event win for Christian Lucero by a second and a half over Josh Bridges. Wow, that was an insane race all the way down to the wire. (crying noises) It's alright. That was so frustrating. First off, it's not going to be that big of a deal. I know, but I think the most frustrating part was I didn't pay attention to anyone around me, but the second Boz came over to tell me that when I did two, he was saying that when I'd come to extension, when I hit extension that I was back-swinging, which I don't agree with, but I did my best to fix it. It's like, I'd be completely locked out. He'd go, "One." Like the entire time. My knees would barely fucking bend, and Boz said that was fine in the briefing. Let's move on. One at a time, remember? You're fine. You can feel bad about it for 10 more minutes. I'm just mad. I know. It's ok. I did so many reps that he called no-reps. And then he kept telling me to watch my palm. My hands were fucking inside the box. I was literally like this doing handstand push-ups. It's not CrossFit's fault. It's not the game's fault. Get over this in a second, and let's just go back to doing everything you can do this weekend. I know you're upset, but like, the you're placing as well as those around you. It's not going to be that big of a deal, I promise you. We don't know how they were--how strict they were with other people in this heat, in other heats, we have no clue. Alright, let's go. Cool down. Eat some food. I fucking opened my mouth when I shouldn't have. I can't help it. It's like, you see that she's bummed out, and you want to say something to nurture her, and you open your big, stupid mouth, and fucking--I shouldn't have said anything. I told myself, "Don't say anything if shit goes bad. Keep your distance." You were even going over there, like, "Hey man, it's not a good idea," and I was like, "But I think she needs me." She didn't fucking need me. Shit. I think you should have come out with, "Hey baby, you may have not done as well as you wanted but you looked good." There's no right thing to say Go try that. Go try that. I'm staying away from her for awhile. Ooh, you've got the gym bag? Some goodies. Out of voodoo floss? Knee sleeves. Got extreme endurance, creatine, (indecipherable). There it is. Fuel Five. I'll even hook Cami up. Fuel Five. Oh yeah, Dan's upset. Yeah, I think he probably thought he was going to do better than what he did. He did good still. I love Dan, but right now I'm all focused about me. Have to be. Old Dan Bailey. Dingleberry Bailey. Barnacle Bailey. He's got a lot of names. Nah, Dan's a great dude. Dan, will you throw this on my back bro? What is that? What's wrong with that? No, I'm not throwing anything on your back. See, you think you have a good dude and a good friend in somebody, and this guy will not help a brother out. I just want some-- You would not put that on my back. I don't even know what that is. It's just some heat. That's all. It's just heat. I just need a little help. I need a hand. I need a third hand, dude. I don't have a third hand. I can't reach my back. So I was gone. I was out of town. We had a nice little argument about this. Yeah, we had an argument.
Bailey: I snapped back at Josh. It's an argument. You did snap back. That sounds like a legit argument. I moved something and I noticed on my couch there was a paint stain on my couch. It was like--it wasn't very big. It was like-- I waited until the next time I saw Dan, and I was like, "Hey, Dan, you been--you paint your boat lately?" And just all nonchalantly, you know, like that. I was like, "Yeah, actually." I don't remember what I was painting. And he's like, "Yeah, I actually did paint it," and I go, "What color was it?" He's like, "It was white." And I was like, "Hmm." I was like, "Like this color right here on my couch?" What would you do, Ian, if you got paint--
Clean it up. Yeah, you'd clean it up. So I was like--I go, "You gonna get that paint, man?" He's like, "What are you talking about?" "There's stains all over that couch." I'm like, "What does that have to do with the stain you added to my couch?" Well I turn and look at the couch and it's got, like, six holes in it, a cigarette burning on it-- Oh! Ok. Now who exaggerates? It's right there. Where? That's the paint stain. Oh, I see it. I see it. I cleaned it a little bit. Bailey: You don't see anything. No, I do, seriously.
Bridges: Of course you do. You can tell it's there. I mean this is--yes, this is dirt. I have a five year old and a three year old. They're dirty kids. Well, you got me too. I got a thirty year old. Thirty one year old. You got me too. Every time a couch is micturated upon in this fine city, I have to pay for it?! I have to pay for it. Perfect. Too perfect. Event 3 and 4 is just really painful, and so, I think it's probably the most painful workout of the weekend. So that will be fun. Boom. Does it look just like me? This is gonna sell some tees for real. Right? I mean, when I started CrossFit, it wasn't a sport. It was a way to be fit, a way to exercise, you know? A workout routine I guess, so--. That's how everyone did Fran back then. You had a wall ball underneath, make sure you're hitting depth for your thrusters. Obviously get a nice little bounce out of it. You think that would have helped you in the Open this year? Oh, for sure. People wouldn't be calling you out on your standards. Right, yeah. Actually, I did that video, it was the weekend after I graduated from SQT, so right when I earned my trident. Ah! Fuck yeah! Go get a little prep, like stretch out kind of thing. Some women's softball? Hell yeah. My favorite. Oh yeah. I can't act like I'm--it hurts. This kind of sucks. I'm pushing really really hard though. Like I'll do active recovery days, probably like one every ten days or so, where I only do like one workout, one or two workouts. Well see, that's a one or two workout. I consider that like an active recovery day still. So yesterday was an active recovery day? I'm not going to say that. Competition's different. It's like, of course the volume's a lot less than when I train, but the intensity is insane, you know? Tough standard to go strict with, for judging, judging-wise. Would you say you got away with stuff or that you had a stricter judge? I don't know. I mean, I felt like I was--I was trying to meet the standards, so I felt like I was doing it well. My judge was saying I was fine, and Bozman came over a few times and like, hit me up, so, you know, I tried to meet the standards as much as I could, and my judge was saying they were good so, you know, that's what I did. I've kept my distance ever since. What you gotta do, man. Yeah, dude. I mean, I've lived with married couples. I see it. I see it all the time. It's not uncommon. Yeah. It's fine, son. Thanks, man. See? Somebody can help me out. You be there to listen, and you just keep your mouth shut. Yep. I fucked that up. I'm actually kind of mad because a lot of people have told me where I'm at and I don't want to know. It just doesn't change anything. You know? (beep) Announcer: And she is moving on that bar. ... sprinting down the floor. Brooke Ence is moving down the floor. There's a lot of points to be had today. Josh Bridges. He literally looks like the first round. Josh Bridges is back. 3, 2, 1 ... time! Huh. What are you thinking? I think--I thought you were going to do better at the pistol one, but I mean, it's fucking hard. I shaved them last night for today. Yesterday, though, no I didn't shave them, and they're growing. You can see them on the goosebumps and scars. This, that's not shaving either. That's pure, unhaired armpit. Free as--I'm as bare as--I don't know. As bare as bare can be here. I'm like a hairless dog, or a cat. I don't have hair on my--I don't have much hair. Ah, I just refreshed it. Looking at the points right now. They haven't added in the fifth--the fourth event. She was in fourth after the fourth event, but she's going to drop a little bit because she got 27th on the fourth event, which is going to hurt her. So nice to see you! I got a team of awesome awesome people that keep me fed. She's been known to be a clydesdale. I call her my pony because she kind of has a pony-esque trot about her. And, yeah, we try to make sure she's well-fueled like a pony would be. I tried to order something different. Sat here, started logging all my food into my app, kind of decide if I could afford all the fat that was going to be in the mole that I had ordered. Scared me a little bit, so I went for fajitas instead. Safe. It was a safe bet. Milk, Perfect Bar and some Extreme Endurance Protein. I had a little creatine JB earlier, but, you know. That's neither here nor there. (laughing) Just throw that in there. Gave Tony Blauer a call because we knew he had--or see if he had a TrueForm and he did, so he said we could come up and use it, so we're going to do that, hit that workout. The next workout is kind of my redemption workout. You got the deadlift workout. I'm really looking forward to that one, you know, everyone's--I've gotten in trouble about that 405 deadlift forever, even though I got 13 of the 15 reps in the Games that year. Everyone says I couldn't deadlift it, but I did it 13 times, but yeah, sure. Announcer: Josh Bridges got left in the dust as he was still deadlifting. I couldn't deadlift 405 the 14th and 15th time. So I'm excited about that one. You know, I'm really hoping to do really well at that workout. I touched Brooke Ence and Josh Bridges' ass in the same day. Wins. These are--it's called winning. Announcer: ... obviously a redemption year for him. If there was a redemption event, this is the one, and he is here to show people this is what he was telling me. These aren't even my words. These are his. "I want to show people that I can do the 405 and it's not going to be a big deal." He told me that it will not be a big deal. And this could be an event where Brooke might make up some ground in the point standings. We haven't mentioned her yet, and she enters this in eighth. (beep) But look at the tempo and the speed that he's moving. Brooke Ence seeing herself on the outside looking in. She will take the lead on the GHD sit-ups. And he is making up huge gains on the GHD sit-ups. Wow. Did he have problems a couple years ago with this weight? I think all you can say about that is "point proven." This isn't going to be an issue for her. She's the first one through round number one. Brooke Ence continuing to lead the way. It looks like this is the exact tempo he had in round one. Look at that. There's no set-up. He just goes for it. Wow. She looks much more solid this round than she did that first round. Almost looks like she hasn't had her core weakened by 80 GHD sit-up and 800 meters on the True Form Runner. You're looking at a battle between two of the elite in CrossFit. Josh Bridges and Dan Bailey going toe to toe here in this final event. Why I do it is because I love to compete to push myself to see what I'm capable of, to see what my potential actually is, and how far I can push past it sometimes. I don't know. I have a hard time not trying to be the best at whatever it is I'm doing. Announcer: Brooke Ence. This would be huge for her going into the ... Lauren Fisher! Brooke Ence with her seventh and final deadlift. She'll cross the line, and this is huge for Ence. The difference is that mental toughness of Josh Bridges. He just has a "I will not stop" attitude, "I will not give up" attitude, and again, he wants to prove to everyone what he means to do, and man is he making a statement. Josh, you have redeemed yourself! 405-lb. deadlift! He takes Event 5! Man, this guy's on a roll. God, this is just real fucking painful, but it felt so good for me to be the first one off the run and the GHD. That was awesome. Good job, babe. I was like shake-faced. Ew, fuck! This shirt, man. I've been wearing this shirt for two days. I'm ripe. Uh, fuck. And I can go that fucking hard tomorrow on Event 6. What are you looking at, bro? I'm looking at comments that people say about my wife. "She's back," exclamation point. "Congratulations, Brooke. It was amazing watching you kill today." "Badass." "That's my bae." "She ain't too pretty in this pic, though." "But she has an excuse. She just rocked the event." Yeah, you're not going to look like a goddamn prom queen at the end of a goddamn workout. Thanks, dude. Thanks. Appreciate it. Once I noticed you were behind me, I was like, "Ok, I'm just going to walk through the rest of this." Dan too. Why you shake-facing? Because. Because I just can't help but know that--I can't help but be mad that-- I'm just fighting. Which I should be doing. I just--I can't help but know that because of what happened in Event 2 that I'm having to fight this fucking hard. Yeah. And I still have to. The points are so close. Yeah. So. Bailey: I'm thinking of all the motorcycle--
Castro: It's going to be candid. Just don't look at it. (laughing) I hope I'm in this good of a mood tomorrow at about 7 p.m. That's good right there. Send me that. See you tomorrow?
Yeah, Dave. See you tomorrow. Good job. Reminds me of stupid questions. I don't drink nearly as often as I used to. Were you in the military last year? Yes I was. When did you get out of the military? October 14. What made you decide to get out of there? There was a lot of factors, you know. The main one was I don't really want to be gone from my kids for long periods of time anymore. You know, just kind of ready to move on, I guess. I loved what I did, loved everything about it. I'd never go back and change anything about it. Yeah, just kind of time, and ready to move on. Being a dad is the coolest title I've ever been given. I have two kids, Jackson and Knox, and they're five and three. I have some titles that I'm honored to have been called. You know, to be called a Navy SEAL, or a CrossFit athlete or a Rogue athlete, and I think those are some cool titles, but (indecipherable) I don't know what's happening right now. Being a parent has been so awesome. The best way someone ever explained it to me was, it's a club that once you're in it you're like, "Gosh, I wish I would have gotten into it earlier." What's this parking job we've got here? Crushed it, man. That's not a dickhead move, is it? I didn't start really having trouble sleeping until after to tell you the truth it was when I started deploying. After I started deploying I really, I haven't slept good. Is it because of things you experienced there? I don't think so. I don't know why, to tell you the truth. That was when I can start to remember not being able to sleep well. Everything before that, I used to be a pretty good sleeper. So this is called cupping, bro. Basically you light it. You put it in there, then right as you pull it out, you put it on the muscle you want it on. I already got some coconut on there. Just start rubbing it around. I've watched her do it, but I can't-- Bailey: It's like the cup is almost already on your body. Well, right, she has it like this, and right as she pulls it out she puts it on. It creates like a vacuum effect. I don't know about that. Come on. Let me be a good dude. I can do it. Got a little suction there. That was suction. I'm gonna call Heidi real quick. I'm going to try to do it and end up burning him. Right when I get it in there the flame goes out. Is that normal? No. Huh-uh. That's not normal. Ok. So then you need more alcohol probably. Or you're holding it up. Don't touch it to the top of the cup. Just hold it up in there. So I'm going to try to do it to my chest. That's probably the fastest I can get it. Does that hurt? Got it. (laughing) It is on me. Got it? Yep. I'm not concerned about anything. I'm gonna go as hard as I can, and I'm gonna dig as deep as I possibly can and hope it's enough. Snapping the champ. Bout to be! Is you a good boy? Rotisserie! Marston says he wants to try carb front-loading. Are you going to the party down the block? Come here. Come here. Come here, now. He's not--initially he wasn't in trouble, but now he thinks he is. Come here. Up. Up. Riggs dog, come here. He never gets left, so when he does get left it's a big deal. Really? I thought I heard you say you didn't want to be touched today. (kiss) Oh ho ho ho. Yeah, twice. Because he's more concerned about you. Story of my life. That's alright. Thank you. Go get him. They understand each other. They don't really have--you know-- they only have that with each other. A lot of people can't understand either of them, so it's a good thing they have one another. If Marston were a dog-- Heber Canon on the camera: Burning building. You're both inside. Marston has to save one of you. Who's he going for? The dog. Burning building. You have time to save one person: Riggs or--
Marston: Riggs is very flammable. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to save the wife. Riggs can save himself. He is a good chippy. Announcer: We have 11 points separating Brooke Ence in fifth, and Colleen Fosch, Chyna Cho and Chelsey Grigsby down in eighth. Big day, bro. Because today dictates, like, the rest of Brooke's year. and my year. On the cusp of qualifying and she's got a good shot. She's going to do really well at 6. I think 7 she's a little intimidated by because when we tested it at U, she was slipping on the rope, and it was a nylon rope. I'm, like, slipping off the rope. I mean, who knows. I think she can do it. I know she can do it, but it's just stressful right now. Heber: Say she doesn't make it. What do you do? Just going to be there. Just not say much and give her a hug and tell her I love her. Ooh, it's close man. These last couple of events really are going to shuffle things up. I haven't dug into it enough to know exactly who's going to make it. Obviously Josh is going to win. That's a given, but the rest--there's a lot of room to be made from these last couple events, so sorry I don't have a better answer for you. Top-five favorite movies--good question. The Incredibles is obviously in my top five. I mean, the ultimate classics, you know, like Braveheart, that's gotta be top five. Gladiator, Tommy Boy, How many was that? Three? Four? I just gave you? Four, gosh. I'm down to one left. You gotta think of sports movies. Oh my gosh, Rudy. Rudy, man. That is definitely my top five. Announcer: Brooke is very strong. Brooke has a ton of capacity, and she likes to grind, so I think that this is going to be a great workout for her. She needs to have this particular event if she wants to try to protect that fifth-place spot. You know, the fact that Josh Bridges was saying yesterday that he loves these events and he wanted to win this event, and he's so far ahead of everyone. I mean, I tell you what. That guy is riding a wave of confidence. I know she doesn't want to go in sitting in fifth place. She wants to move her way up the board, but if she wants to protect herself, this is where she's going to do it. Brooke Ence on the left side of the screen gets a no rep for depth. Look out. Josh Bridges lurking in the weeds here. He's number six onto the rower. The bubble athletes are trying to make their attack on Brooke Ence. It is addicting. It's addicting to suffer. I'm addicted to the pain. I'm addicted to the opportunity to make a decision to be better every time I'm training. Marcus Filly fourth, and he's just ahead of Josh Bridges. Man, that was close, but what a great way to finish for Josh Bridges. He was out in the back for awhile. What a way to hit that ending. Thank you. I PR'd--I mean, I did better than when I practiced it, so that's good. One more. It's a little tense. I don't want to go in there. She says she can read it on my face, but I don't--no matter what I do she's-- just let her be. Not as good as I'd hoped, but still did alright. Not upset. I've got one more to go. Seventh. 4:21. Hagiya, sixth, 4:22. Fotsch, fifth, 4:23. Cho, fourth, 4:25. So, four, five, six--four spots separated by four points. Fuck. There are two spots, four girls. Four points separating. So it's you, Chyna, uh, however you say it, short girl's name--Asian girl-- Hagiya? Hagiya. Jamie. And, uh-- Colleen. So you know who you need to beat. You're really fucking good at rope climbs. You're even better at thrusters. This is all you, ok?
Yeah. It'll be over soon. Yes it will. Either way. And regardless, life goes on after this, right? Yeah. It'll suck if you don't make it, but we all still love you no matter what, so just give it everything you have. Alright? I don't know. She's so fiery. If anyone can freaking get in there and get the job done, I think it is Brooke Ence. There's nothing happening this weekend that I'm not good at, that I can't do. So now it's just, let the chips fall where they will. I've trained hard all year, and now what I can control is what I think and how I react. No, for some reason this year I feel completely different going into regionals compared to last year. Like, I'm not nervous. I'm just excited and ready to go and fired up. You can literally say everything is up for grabs here. Who are our good rope climb individuals? Here we go. The last heat of the weekend here in SoCal. It's underway, and expect fireworks. Four athletes currently in the lead and have a shot at going to Carson. The other two's road to the Games ends here at this event. Jason Carroll's going to take the heat. Josh Bridges will be the California champion in 2016. Chyna Cho is back in the Games. And she might be doing just enough to get to the Games. Brooke Ence makes the touch on her final rope climb, sprinting down the floor. She entered this event one point behind Hagiya. She's going to need some help from somebody higher up the leaderboard to fall in the ranking if she wants to get to Carson. It doesn't look likely, though, for Ence to make it for a second straight year. I'm waiting. See if I did it. Josh Bridges! Proving it to myself that I could get back, so, I'm really happy. Got here on "bro-reps." Josh Bridges! It's just--a lot of things like that just gave me the reminder of that life is so short, and we're so lucky to be able to do what we're doing and make it and be at this level, and I train all year long, you know, to be the best I can be. In general, his decision-- he is trying to get big. He thinks that if he gets bigger, puts on some size, that I'm just going to want to jump his bones all the time. The work continues. How so? Back to the gym. Back training. Back hustling. I go back to London in August, just for two weeks for a second film, and I just, you know, I wasn't ready for my season to be over, but I am more than capable of getting back to the Games. If you look at my finishes besides the pistol event, I was pretty well-rounded. Doesn't define me. There's a lot of good athletes out there, and we're all fighting for, you know, five spots. out of the whole state of California, so I'm going to keep working really really hard in the gym, and I want to come back, and I'm going to qualify next year, and I'm going to, you know, podium at the Games. Once you start to make these decisions to do painful stuff, and CrossFit's painful, you start to push through those moments where you're like, "Gosh, I really want to quit," or, "I don't want to do this anymore." No, you can keep going. You're fine. You can keep going. It starts to not become an actual thought, to where it just becomes, like, instinct. It's like breathing, like, ok. Now I don't have to even think about this. Yes, I'm in a lot of pain right now. But I'm going to continue to go, and then it bleeds over into other aspects of your life. Oh, that feels good. I like that workout a lot. When you write down a goal, I feel like you have to really figure out the plan to get there. You know, I wrote down my goals. It was, "Ok, be the best Dad you can be." "Teach your kids everything--Teach them everything that you can and more." And then I, you know--"Win the CrossFit Games." I don't think about much else right now. You know, I think about working out, preparing myself. I'll leave, then I'll go to bed at 9 o'clock and I wake up and do it again. People are like, "Hey, what are you up to?" And I'm like, "I'm going to train today." You know, I don't have any other-- Right now it's my main focus, and my sole focus, and I feel like I'm very capable of completing that goal.
Well, only Road to the Games for one of them
I'm just glad Bridges will be in the behind the scenes again.
Bridges is hilarious, and a hell of an athlete. Glad to see him back at the games. Sucks Bailey didn't make it though.
Brooke's husband seemed not to have a ton of confidence in himself, always walking on eggshells while she's performing at Regionals. Seemed like a real nice guy though, it must be tough to be married to someone so polarizing in the industry. Perhaps too much armchair psychologist on my part, not trying to offend, just a quick observation.
Bridges looks like he's actually trying too go super saiyan
This is the best road to the games yet. Feels like we see more of their story with the extra time instead of just a bunch of training collages and then an interview or two.
"EVERY TIME A COUCH IS MICTURATED UPON IN THIS FINE CITY, I HAVE TO PAY FOR IT?"
That's awesome
I respect the cameraman after Nate with leaving Ence alone. Way to many people would be right up in her face.
I just want an entire episode of Bridges and "Barnacle Bailey's" bromance