Booty Shorts: $45.99. One hasty bet at CFM’s end of the Year Christmas Party- PRICELESS!!
Ok, so I have to admit, I admire the kid for being a man true to his word. Here’s the story:
Some of you know that Rosanna Sansone hosted an end of the year/Christmas party at her new house in Corte Madera on Saturday Dec. 26th, 2009. I wasn’t present first-hand at the time, as I was probably swing dancing in the living room, but by all accounts Rosanna had commented that she thought she would be able to get the four muscle-ups required to win the women’s muscle-up challenge. This is a BIG DEAL. Up to that date, we’d had several females come close, but no woman had actually gotten a muscle-up on rings, much less four. Back on July 20th, after I helped coach (along with others) Annie Thorisdotir on muscle-ups during the final chipper of the CrossFit Games, I had posted the challenge on July 20th, 2009 to motivate our ladies to work on them and also offered some cool loot for the winner(s). Some of the favorites were: Jill Sprague, Charmaigne Humphries, Amanda Norton, Rosanna Sansone, Seraphina Schinner, and Gillian Parker, who all have a good amount of pull strength and are plenty coordinated. Rosanna, who we joke about being our whiney and high-maintenance gymnastics princess, proved, nevertheless, that consistency pays off when working skills. A few days prior to the party, during OSTN on Christmas Day, she hit her cast hand-stand on the uneven bars, in booty shorts, no less! She had been working this skill for years, and our trainer and Oly-lifting competitor, Ben Herwitz, was there to witness it as was Carlos and myself. Here’s that video:
Ok, so there’s the reference to the booty shorts, which rumor has it that Rosanna wears when she takes pole dancing classes. Wow, as if she wasn’t sexy enough already. I know women in our gym that check out her legs and…. ahem, 30 push-ups for thinking of that word. So, back at our Christmas party, Ben hears Rosanna mention in front of the CFM regulars and some trainers, that she thinks she can get the four muscle-ups during the next gymnastics class. Not thinking that she could actually pull it off, Ben perks up that if she did, he’d do thirty muscle-ups for time in booty shorts. I don’t know how many beers were involved in this conversation, as I was busy teaching the ladies how to swing dance to Brian Seltzer’s Orchestra’s “Dig That Crazy Christmas”, but in any case the bet was made, with witnesses, and Rosanna hit her four muscle-ups at the very next gymnastics class on December 30th, 2009, which Russell Bruel was coaching. I think Russ wanted to see the 30 Muscle-ups in Booty shorts thing happen. Here is the rest of the footage, for all you Twighlight fans:
Somehow, Ben made the “switcharoo” and ended up doing the WOD in Laura’s booty shorts instead of Rosanna’s Pole dancing booty shorts. We wouldn’t want anything to fall out, you know! So here’s the finae, because I know you ladies wanted to see the shirt come off!:
