IE11: Alpaca Kinda
We woke up this morning and headed straight to a briefing where we were introduced to yet another new movement. It was a new rope climb standard with new rules on ascent, descent and rope placement. It left a lot of grey area. There were a lot of questions asked and some semi satisfying answers. Basically it’s a constant argument with them telling us “what they want to see” and is asking “what counts”. We’re all trying to gain a competitive advantage and as workouts like this progress strict gymnastics breaks down. It looked like a lot of the workout would come down to strict legless up and down rope climbs.
The original alpaca event looked pretty cool and i was excited about it. a nice mix of grunt work and high skill gymnastics, but unfortunately we didn’t get to do it. With a big rainstorm around all morning they decided the rope climbs would be unsafe and removed them leaving only a sled and KB workout. Completely different.
As the big boys rejoiced in the back w...