Kiteboarders Love To Play
8 Aug
CrossFit Portland hosted a Kiteboarding for Cancer fundraiser last night at our gym and it was an awesome party! Thank you to all the kiteboarders who showed up and helped the cause. Thank you to Widmer for donating the special brew and a BIG thank you to Jeri for organizing and putting the whole thing together. She raised over $700 for the cause!!! If you missed the party, it is not too late to donate, just click here 
Kiteboarders love to play. They jumped on our bar systems, gymnastic rings, and it was half party, half workout for the rest of the night. It was fun seeing everyone learning the muscle ups, doing pull overs, and kiteboarders are some strong athletes. For those of you that signed up for a free workout, look out for an email from CrossFit Portland real soon.
In all the muscle up frenzy, a certain kiteboarder named Gary helped me learn how to do a true muscle-up, no false grip. It turns out when the gymnast mounts the rings, they will get penalized for using a false grip. Not that they need to since pulling themselves over the rings is equivalent to you and I doing push ups. Gary use to be a Oregon state champion in mens gymnastics and his cues and instruction got me my first non-false grip muscle on the rings. Awesome Gary and much appreciated.
Gary imparting wisdom and perspective on the muscle up.
Go fly a kite
Jeri, our event maestro
Looks fabulous girls!
No one on the rings or bars?!
This guy was relentless!
Nice schwag, great party! Thanks again all
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