New London CrossFit League: Box Battles
The London Box Battles
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The London Box Battles CrossFit league has arrived due to popular demand. It’s time to find out which London-based CrossFit box has the best all-round athletes. The London Box Battles will be a grass roots competition that brings the London CrossFit community together. Box Battles will be an all inclusive competition designed to give every athlete the chance to represent their box and compete against athletes of equal ability.
We all love CrossFit, and everyone should have the chance to compete in a regular CrossFit competition. No matter if you are a competition veteran or a first time competitor, Box Battles has a group for you:
Group A: The top CrossFit athletes from each box. The guys and girls who fancy themselves as competitive athletes and who want to compete against the best London has to offer.
Group B: CrossFit athletes that are training for general health and fitness and don’t want to compete with the big guns. Most of these athletes will have been doing CrossFit for over 12 months. This groups WODs will be slightly scaled to suit the level of fitness.
Group C: First time competitors or athletes that have been doing CrossFit for less than 12 months. Again these WODs will be scaled to suit the level of fitness.
Note: It is the responsibility of each box to put each athlete in the most appropriate group for their skill and fitness levels. The aim is to have athletes form each box competing against athletes of similar ability.
There will be limited spaces in each group due to the available space at each hosting box. Therefore, we will be using qualification workouts to select the competing athletes from each box.
Scoring
The scorecards from each event will be used to build an ordered ladder of competing boxes. There will be equal points allocated for each group and hence the leading box will have the best average of athletes across all groups. Box Battles is not just about the top athletes!
Register your Box
As Box Battles is a year-long event, we require all 2014 competing boxes to be registered by 15th February 2014. Please register by sending an e-mail to Joe Edwards ([email protected]).
The first event for 2014:
Date: Sunday 6th of April 2014
Locations: TBA
Cost: £10 per athlete
Qualification WODS
We will be using the 2014 CrossFit Open workouts 1 & 2 as the qualification WODs.
Note: The qualification WODs will be scaled for Group B & C
Judges
If you’re not a keen competitor, or you don’t make the team, you should consider being a judge. Each box will be required to provide judges on the competition date.
Future events:
In 2014 the London CrossFit community is planning to host 4 Box Battles:
2nd event: July (TBA)
3rd event: October (TBA)
4th event: December (TBA)
If you have any questions please feel free to contact [email protected] or your Box Battles representative:
CrossFit Hackney – StreTch Rayner
CrossFit P360 – James Taylor
Thames CrossFit – Phil Morton
CrossFit Evolving & CrossFit Kilburn – Scott Tudge
CrossFit Bold – Harriet Bold
CrossFit North London – Gerard Andrews
CrossFit London – Katarina Berceliova
Blitz CrossFit Twickenha – Benjamin Blake Massey
CrossFit Blackfriars – Richard Edmonds
CrossFit Ivy – Matt
CrossFit South London – Maria Turner
Crossfit Central London – Clare or Brian
Sunbury Performance Crossfit – Liam Moore
If your box is not listed here please jump on your coaches and request them to get onboard with the 2014 London Box Battles!
If you want a bit of competition practice before the first event in April, then come along to CrossFit Hackney’sHackney Hustle throwdown on 21st February 2014!
