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Street, not capitol hill, our schools. Yeah. Pelley frank hall doesnt want to be known as a hero, but when you react the way he did during a Deadly School shooting, its hard to call him anything else. I saw a young man firing into a crowd. I just stood up, shoved my table out of the way and started after him. Pelley the emergency plan is to get all the kids out of the hallways, get them all into rooms and shelter in place. Frank didnt do that. He didnt. He acted as a father. Alfonsi Greg Glassman hardly looks like an exercise guru. There is no hint of ripped muscle underneath his uncut shirt, but he is widely considered the most powerful man in fitness today. You like metrics, you like money . We are the Fastest Growing large chain on earth. We have broken all records. Alfonsi in just 15 years, the king of crossfit has created the largest gym chain in history. She was meant to look like that. That is what nature would have carved from her a million years ago. 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As we first reported in march, much of what took almost 2,000 years to build was lost in a matter of months. chanting logan on the side of a mountain overlooking the Nineveh Plains of ancient mesopotamia is the monastery of st. Matthew. Its one of the oldest on earth. The voices of its monks have echoed here since the fourth century, uttering prayers that have not changed. You do the service in aramaic. Joseph ibrahim yes. Logan . Which was the language of jesus. Ibrahim yes. Logan are you among the last people on earth to speak this language . Ibrahim we think so, because we kept this language through the language of prayers. Logan prayers through centuries of persecution. Father Joseph Ibrahim is one of only seven monks left here. He told us the monastery was founded in 363, and has survived the persian and ottoman empires, mongol invaders, and kurdish conquests. Today, its threatened by the Islamic State, whose fighters advanced towards st. Matthews gates shortly after taking mosul last summer. Kurdish soldiers pushed them back to this village, where their flag still flies only four miles from the monastery. What are you most afraid of . Ibrahim unknown future. Logan the unknown future . Ibrahim yes. Logan what do you think is going to happen . Ibrahim we dont know exactly, but we are expecting the worse. Logan the road from st. Matthews brings you to the frontline, just six miles from the outskirts of mosul. Every town and village between here and the occupied city is in the hands of the Islamic State. And now, were told, for the first time in nearly 2,000 years, there are no christians left inside mosul. Nicodemus sharaf they take everything from us, but they cannot take the god from our hearts. They cannot. Logan Nicodemus Sharaf is the archbishop of the Syriac Orthodox Church in mosul, one of about 10,000 christians who fled the city. We found him living as a refugee in the kurdish capital, erbil. He said isis fighters were already inside mosul when he escaped. Sharaf i didnt have any time to take anything. I was told i had five minutes to go. Just i take five books. They are very old. Logan among them, this aramaic manuscript. He told us it was written 500 years ago, and said he left behind hundreds more older than this one, christian relics that may never be recovered. Sharaf i think they burn all the books. And we have books from the First Century of the christianity. Logan you had from the First Century. Sharaf of the christianity. When i remember this, i cannot. From the beginning the christianity, this is the first time we cannot pray in our churches. Logan as it seeks to erase christianity from the landscape, the Islamic State allows no christian symbols. It released these photographs, which show the desecration of the church at what is believed to be the monastery of mar gorgis, just north of mosul. And nothing is sacred. Isis blew up this mosque shortly after taking control here. Its a site holy to both christians and muslims because the Old Testament prophet jonah was said to be buried inside. Just like the nazis marked the property of jews, Christian Homes in mosul have been marked with this red symbol. Its the arabic letter n for nasara, an early islamic term for christians. When isis puts it on your home, you either convert to islam, pay an extortion tax, or face the sword. Issah al qurain is one of tens of thousands who had to make that choice. He was at home with his family in the Christian Village where hed lived all his life when isis fighters came looking for him. He told us the fighters first took all his money, then his wife and children. They were telling you convert, convert, convert . Issah al qurain translated yes, convert. In the beginning, i refused. I told them i was christian, and i had my religion and they had their religion. But they told me, if you dont convert, we will kill you and take your wife and children. Logan he agreed and was taken to mosul to convert, where he was reunited with his family. Soon, isis fighters were asking about his young daughter, and he told us that frightened him more than anything. Al qurain they said to me that, in islam, the sharia says girls that are ten years old should get married. As soon as they left, my wife and i shut the door. We looked at each other and she started to cry and pray. We were so scared they were going to take our daughter from us. Logan they escaped in the back of a taxi. Issah says they talked their way through three isis checkpoints and traveled for over four hours on back roads to erbil where, like archbishop sharaf, they now live as refugees. Some 30,000 christians were living in erbil before this crisis, most of them chaldean catholics, who follow their own ancient traditions but recognize the authority of the pope. Bashar warda is the archbishop of this diocese. He says his congregation has swelled by more than 60,000 refugees as kurdistan, the semi autonomous region in the north of iraq, has become a safe haven for christians fleeing the Islamic State. This is one of the oldest Christian Communities in the world, thousands of years old. Bashar warda 2,000 years old, almost. Logan and when you look at it today, where is that Christian Community here . Warda disappearing. Its dying. Logan archbishop warda said christians in iraq, ironically, felt safer under saddam hussein. Democracy brought a new wave of persecution and prompted a mass exodus of christians. When the u. S. Withdrew completely in 2011, archbishop warda says the situation became even worse because iraqs new leaders were incapable of governing without help. Warda i think american support was needed, needed forcefully. You cannot leave the country like this and tell them, well, weve liberated you. We cannot do the job for you and we are walking away. And this is your country, rule it. Logan so, in your view, walking away in 2011 was just as damaging to iraq as 2003 when the u. S. Invaded . Warda yes. Its not blaming, but thats the reality. This is not what you came for in 2003. The 4,000 sacrifices of the american soldiers was not meant to come to this day. Logan christianity in iraq was born in the towns and villages of the Nineveh Plains, like this one called tel isqof, which lies less than 20 miles north of mosul. Christians have lived here and walked these streets for over a thousand years. But today, theres no one. Theyre all gone, driven out by fear. And one of the most striking things you notice is the silence. Every road was deserted, houses and possessions abandoned, others destroyed. Tel isqof had always been a refuge for Iraqs Christians, until last year when isis moved in and 7,000 christians fled. Three weeks later, kurdish soldiers pushed the terrorists out. But father rony hana said isis instilled such fear here that his people wont come back. He worries, too, but returns for a few hours every morning to check on his church, which he said isis fighters used as their base. He told us one of them called him on his cell phone to ask how to operate the church generator. They really did, they asked you that . And you told them . I guided them to where it was located around the corner from here, he told us, and explained how to turn it on. The last thing i said was to please take care of the church, and they just hung up. The cleansing of Iraqs Christians from this land is something archbishop sharaf believes ought to be generating a much louder cry of outrage from his muslim friends and neighbors. Sharaf speak up. Of course, there is good people of the islam people. There is not all muslim people they are bad, i believe. But where is the good people . Where is their voice . Nothing. Few. Few. Logan with everything that has happened here to the christians, what has been lost . Sharaf they lost our dignity here. Im sorry to say that. We dont have dignity in our country, in our land. Logan most everyone we met welcomed u. S. Led air strikes here, but they also said it is not nearly enough. Taking back mosul, a city of about 1. 5 million people, is widely understood to be a difficult prospect. Archbishop warda believes the iraqi army cant do it alone, and as long as the city remains in the hands of isis who he refers to as daesh, its arabic name no christians will be going home. Warda for me, daesh is a cancer. Its a disease. So, sometimes, you take some hard measures, unfortunate measures to deal and to treat this cancer. Logan so you want to see a Major Military offensive to retake mosul . Warda yeah, to get iraq to its normal situation. Logan and by getting iraq to its normal situation, you mean restoring the border between iraq and syria . Warda yes. Logan getting rid of daesh, the Islamic State . Warda exactly. Logan defeating them militarily . Warda please god. Logan the Christian Community hastily set up militias to guard their deserted villages and homes along the frontline, and theyre getting a little help. We were surprised to come across american brett felton, a christian veteran of the iraq war, who traveled on his own from detroit to train christian volunteers. And this man, khamis, who said he came from australia, driven to defend the land where he was born. What do you think the Islamic State intends to do with the christians here . Khamis to wipe them out, to be nothing. No place left that bears the name of christian or christianity. Logan christians in the Frontier Town of al qosh live in the shadow of the Islamic State. 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Ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. Get started for free at ancestry. Com. Pelley it happened in less than a minute three students were shot to death, and three more wounded in a high school outside cleveland. An assistant football coach named frank hall helped stop the shooting. When we first reported this story last year, hall told us that he wished there was no reason to know his name or, god forbid, think of him as a hero. Hes the type youd call a regular guy. On february 27, 2012, hall was doing what he always did. With hugs and fist bumps, he kept order among 100 kids gathering in the School Cafeteria before class. Then, hall was confronted by a question no one can truly answer what would you do at the sound of gunfire . No time to think, theres only the reflex of character. This is the story of a fraction of a second, and the months of consequences that follow. So much time has passed, and still no one in chardon, ohio, knows why it happened. In february 2012, theyd been marking the inches of lake erie snow and counting the days till the tapping of the maples. Forbes had said that this was the fourth best place in america to raise a family, and many of the 5,000 in chardon credited the high school, ranked excellent 13 years in a row. 911. What is your emergency . This is Chardon High School calling. We need assistance right now. Theres a student with a gun. Pelley at 7 35, the call came from the principals office. There, teacher tim armelli heard shots down the hall. Tim armelli you knew that the shooting was what it was. Youre. Your heads telling you theres shots; your hearts not believing it. You. You freeze for a moment. You dont think youre going to see your wife or kids again. Pelley you got onto the school p. A. And said what . Armelli lockdown. Teachers, go to lockdown. Pelley in the cafeteria, through the door on the left, a 17yearold boy who went by the initials t. J. Was shooting to kill. Hed put ten rounds in his gun and six letters across his shirt killer, it said. Frank hall i saw a young man firing into a crowd. I just stood up, shoved my table out of the way and started after him. Pelley its tough even now for frank hall to speak of it. But with the support of his wife, he told us what happened when he charged at the boy with the gun. Hall he raises his weapon at me, i jumped behind a pepsi machine. I hear another fire. Pelley that bullet missed hall, so he kept chasing the student down the corridor. Hall and he sees me and he takes off down the hallway, so i chase after him again screaming, yelling. Kids still running. And i get to within like six, seven, eight feet of him, and there was a young man at the end of the hallway right in front of the doors, nick walczak, and t. J. Shoots him in the back. Nick walczak i was shot once in the spine. That paralyzed me. And thats when i went down. Pelley what do you remember seeing or hearing of coach hall in those moments . Walczak he said. As hes running by me, he said hang tight. Ill be back. Pelley pursued by hall, the shooter ran without loading the second magazine that he carried with ten more rounds. Hall then, i chased t. J. Out the doors and i lose him in the parking lot and. 47 seconds from the first shot till he exited the doors, 47 seconds. Pelley hall ran back to the cafeteria, where daniel parmertor, demetrius hewlin, and russell king were not going to survive. Hall you just knew that it wasnt going to end well. So i just asked god to be in this place with us and to be with them. I went around and i tried to comfort them the best i could, and demetrius had a long tear on his face and i wiped it, and tried to make danny and russell as comfortable as i could. They were still breathing. They were trying to fight. What was only a couple minutes seemed like forever waiting for the paramedics and law enforcement. It was tough. Pelley but those boys needed somebody to be with them. Hall yeah. You know, im. Im so thankful. Very thankful that i could be there. Pelley the emergency plan, in essence, is to get all the kids out of the hallways, get them all into rooms, lock those rooms and shelter in place . Armelli correct. Pelley frank didnt do that. Armelli he didnt. He acted as a father, you know, he acted as someone that was those kids parents while theyre away from home. Pelley theres nothing in the plan that says, assistant football coach chases gunman through the school. Hall you just think about getting him out of your room, you know, get him out of your area. Pelley and you did that. You got him out of the cafeteria. But you kept going. Hall i just reacted that day. I just. I just. You know, he was hurting our kids, and thats all i did. I just reacted. Nate mueller as soon as youre staring down the barrel of a gun, you just take off. Pelley death missed nate mueller by less than an inch. A bullet tore through the top of his ear. Mueller and for him to be a teacher, and to put himself in harms way to chase him out of the building for kids that were just students in his cafeteria is amazing. Pelley he never thought of you as just students. Mueller no. Walczak no, we were his family. Pelley and you know that now. Walczak oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Pelley it wasnt long after the gunman bolted out through that door that he was found in the woods by the police. He gave himself up without incident, pled guilty, and has been sentenced to life without parole. He has never given a reason or a motive for the shooting. At sentencing, the judge wondered whether he did it to make a name for himself, so the Community Asked us to keep his name and his face out of this, and we have. When it was over, hall texted im okay to his wife, ashley, but she didnt know what hed done until he came home. Ashley hall he said he was sorry that he had put himself in that situation and that, you know, he realized that he couldve been shot, and that wouldve left us without a husband and without a father. Dad. pelley there was a lot to leave behind. Ashley works for the county, placing kids in foster care, and the halls have adopted four of those kids christian, quincy, and the twins, mark and shawn. Sheltering kids is a way of life for the halls, which is why he cant understand how School Shootings have become a fact of life. Frank hall we need to change. We got to stop this from happening. I mean, i remember when columbine happened. Everybody in the world knew what columbine was. I mean, i cant sit here and tell you every school thats had a School Shooting now. We need to find ways to secure our schools better. We need to make a stand right now that our schools need to be the most important thing we have in this country not wall street, not capitol hill, our schools. We need to determine that in our minds and heart, that our school and our children need to be the most important thing we have. Thats the bottom line. Pelley three days after the shooting, the students reclaimed the most important thing they had, Chardon High School. Armelli frank chasing the shooter out of the building allowed us to not say we were victims. It allowed us to fight the evil. We were not going to let that evil take over. And frank, by his show of courage, allowed all of us to fight. They came down arm in arm 1,100 kids marched right down the center of the street, and coming back into that school and taking over it was our first step in our recovery. Frank hall i dont know why this happened. I only wish i could have done more. Im not a hero, just a football coach and a study hall teacher. Pelley a hero in a tragedy never feels heroic. Every hug, every thank you that frank hall endured took him back to the boys in the cafeteria. Frank hall you know, theyll never have another birthday. Pelley frank, no one could ask you to do more than you did. Frank hall yeah, i know. Its just hard, you just want so bad to be able to take them home. Sometimes, i get mad about it, i get angry. You know, scott, i wish you werent here. I wish i was never on tv. Id give anything for this not to be happening right now. Pelley coach hall returned to chardon, but he was tormented by the memories. Ten months later, when the shooting happened at sandy hook elementary, he couldnt finish the day. It wasnt long after that when hall did something that surprised and saddened many. He left Chardon High School. He had heard about some kids in the county next door who needed him more. Ashtabula county had not made the cut for best place to raise a family 31 of the kids here live in poverty. The high school had won only two Football Games in three years. The head coach quit. And thats how frank hall made a comeback. Frank hall green, go straight. Get it down. Go. Hey, great kick. Nice job. Act like gentleman, play hard, right . Yes, sir. Tyree meeks he changed everything around here. Pelley tyree meeks and Damondre Haywood are on halls new team at lakeside high. Meeks he told us hes not only going to make us great Football Players, but hes going to make us men. Pelley sounds to me like, with coach hall, its not all about xs and os and blocking and tackling. Meeks oh, no. No. Frank hall done a great job, from your effort on the practice field, people, to your effort in the classroom to your respect of the school and the teachers. Pelley when a player smarted off to one of the teachers, hall made it a problem for everyone on the team, a reflex of character. Meeks each and every single last Football Player had to go and apologize to that teacher, just because its that important. Its like. Pelley wait, the. The players who didnt talk back to the teacher also had to go and apologize . Meeks yeah, yeah. Pelley what was the point of that . Meeks its just based upon, like, if one of us messes up, we all mess up, like family, you know. Damondre haywood its to show that weve changed. Because, you know, last year, before coach hall came here, the Football Players, they were getting in trouble all the time, and he wanted to really make sure that the teachers knew that it was a big change. So we all went down there and apologized to her for how our brother acted towards her. Pelley and so, there was a big change on the field. They won their first game, then two more. This last season was building toward their final contest, an away game back at chardon high. It had been eight months since coach hall had left. We were with you at the ballgame with chardon. Couldnt help but notice when you walked out by yourself to collect your thoughts. And i wonder what you were thinking in that moment . Frank hall i was being thankful all the blessings that i have, you know, four healthy boys, a beautiful wife. I was very thankful for my players, for those kids at chardon, for this community. Thankful. Announcer coach, welcome back. And thank you. Pelley an opposing coach. We love coach hall. Pelley . Never gets a welcome like this. cheers and applause hall didnt win the game. His old team at chardon was better that night, 49 to 21. But it was the homecoming that mattered more. Frank hall love you, buddy. How you been . How you guys doing . Pelley at the end, two teams rallied around one coach, a regular guy of extraordinary character. Frank hall im so proud right now of each and every one of you. Serve your family, take care of your family, serve them, you understand me . Yes, sir frank hall all right. Love you. Pelley since we met frank hall, he has created a foundation dedicated to ending school violence. He and ashley have added two more boys to their growing family. 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In just 15 years, the king of crossfit has created the largest gym chain in history and turned fitness into a spectator sport. Its still a battle here in this heat. Alfonsi last summer, the finals of the Crossfit Games were broadcast on espn. 45,000 people showed up to watch contestants who looked like superheroes heave, jump, and lift until a champion was crowned. Rich froning is the fittest man in history alfonsi if this is the body that defines a new kind of fitness. Greg glassman i think well be all right. Alfonsi . The brain that dreamt it all up belongs to Greg Glassman. Well before crossfit was a competition, he designed it as a new way to work out. He says it can transform anyone, and hes not just talking about bulging biceps and sixpack abs. Greg glassman ill deliver you to your genetic potential. Alfonsi your genetic potential . Glassman yeah, how do you like that . Alfonsi it sounds like youre creating a robot or something . Glassman look at her, she was meant to look like that. Thats what nature would have carved from her a million years ago. Or shed have been eaten. Alfonsi Greg Glassman hardly looks like an exercise guru. Theres no hint of ripped muscle underneath his untucked shirt, but he is widely considered the most powerful man in fitness today. Glassman is the architect of crossfit, a Workout Program that mixes elements of weightlifting, calisthenics, and gymnastics. The classes take place in what crossfitters call a box, a stripped down, willfully ugly space. Elbows, elbows, elbows. Up, up, up. There we go. Alfonsi the exercises range from simple to sadistic, and made Greg Glassman, a college dropout, a multimillionaire. You know, you didnt invent weightlifting. Glassman nope. Alfonsi you didnt invent calisthenics. Glassman nope. Alfonsi you didnt invent gymnastics. Glassman nope. Alfonsi so, whatd you do . Glassman i invented that doing lateral raises and curls while eating pretzels is dumb. Thats what i invented. Alfonsi he says, for decades, gym owners have ignored the importance of diet, and been all too happy to watch their members fall into a trance on the treadmill. Do you think people think theyre getting a workout and arent getting a workout . Glassman well, i mean, look, you get sweaty and you come home tired. I can appreciate that. But many people are much closer to doing nothing than they perhaps realize. Alfonsi is everything up till now been wrong in the Fitness Industry . Glassman yes. Yeah. As far as i can see. Logan crossfit classes usually dont take more than an hour. Athletes compete against each other and the clock. Good job. Alfonsi to keep their energy up, theyre encouraged to follow something called a paleo diet, heavy on meat and vegetables food fit for a caveman. I have heard you say that crossfit prepares athletes for the unknown and the unforeseen. Glassman its the. Alfonsi it sounds like youre getting ready to go to war. Glassman yeah, why not . Yeah. For getting ready for war, getting ready for earthquake, getting ready for mugging, getting ready for the horrible news that you have leukemia. What awaits us all is. Is challenge, thats for sure. Alfonsi crossfit, he says, is creating a new super breed, and although some of their athletes appear to be carved out of marble, he says the focus isnt big muscles. Its simple, functional movements like squatting and lifting, whether youre 25 or 75. Glassman would i use dead lifts in both cases . Absolutely. Squatting in both cases . Absolutely. Alfonsi youd have a 75 yearold doing dead lifts . Glassman uhhuh. Yeah. To say no is to say that, if you drop your pen on the ground, youre not going to pick it up. Its a dead lift. Its picking something off the ground. It does not require a physicians okay. If your physician doesnt think you should dead lift, you need to get a new doctor is what you need. Alfonsi glassman started to teach people to lift, jump and sprint long before crossfit became a household name. He had polio as a child and used gymnastics to regain his strength. In high school, a bad dismount left him with a permanent limp. He became a personal trainer and started experimenting with some of the exercises that would become the backbone of his creation. His workouts were loud, disruptive, and gym owners were not impressed. How many gyms did you get tossed out of . Glassman about five or six. Alfonsi five or six . Glassman seven. Alfonsi you dont like being told what to do. Glassman oh, i dont mind being told what to do. I just wont do it. You can say anything you want. Alfonsi he opened his own gym in santa cruz in 2001. Today, there are 12,000 crossfit boxes around the world, each one defiantly barren. The company is private, but estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And Greg Glassman owns 100 of it. He has no board of directors and says he never had a business plan. This is awesome. Can i have a picture with you . Glassman i would love that. Alfonsi . But recently found himself at Harvard Business school. Glassman you like metrics . You like money . Were the Fastest Growing large chain on earth. We have broken all records. Alfonsi . Where he was invited to share the secrets behind crossfits meteoric growth. Glassman im not trying to grow a business. Im doing the right things for the right people for the right reasons. Alfonsi one reason crossfits grown so fast is because just about anyone who wants to open a box can, after paying a 3,000 yearly fee and passing a twoday seminar. Its how the Company Makes most of its money. Two days to take a course, then i can open a gym . Glassman amazing, huh . Alfonsi i mean, to me, is that enough . Glassman well, the. Here was the alternative. Heres what it used to be all you had to have was the money. And you dont even have to take a test. Thats where every other chain came from, someone Just Launched them. Alfonsi and unlike most gym chains, glassman a diehard libertarian relinquishes nearly all control over his affiliates. They can open a box next door to another box if they want. Its probably not surprising glassman believes the strongest one will survive. You dont have an iron fist on them on how they do this. Glassman nope. Its not a franchise, its. Alfonsi they can do it any way they want to do it. Glassman this isnt Kentucky Fried Chicken or. Yeah, its crossfit. Alfonsi you let them do what they want to do once they. Glassman i do. Alfonsi . Although he occasionally fires up the company plane, grabs the family dog, and drops in on an affiliate unannounced. So youre not going in there looking for trouble . Glassman not at all. But if i saw someone pulling with their arms or a rounded back, i think its inevitable that i would say something. Alfonsi at the companys media office in the silicon valley, they publish a different workout of the day every day and more information about crossfit than you could read in a lifetime. And what does it cost for people to access the stuff that youre putting online . Glassman there is no cost. Alfonsi how does that make sense . Glassman its free. Yeah. It. It didnt until we did it you know, the more video we give away, the more money we make. Alfonsi crossfitters created a huge virtual community, posting videos of workouts and wipeouts, and spreading glassmans gospel around the world, in africa, siberia, and on the frontlines of afghanistan and iraq. Whether soldiers or soccer moms, the evangelical enthusiasm of glassmans disciples. One, two, three, heck, yeah. Alfonsi . Has led to criticism. When you hear people describe crossfit as a cult, what do you say . Glassman oh, i dont mind that. What if someone led a cult and they didnt know they were . I mean, that would be messed up, right . So i started to kind of try to think what makes us a cult and what would define a cult. One is recruiting, and i aint recruiting anybody. I dont. You know what, you guys. People call me up, hey, i was thinking about joining crossfit. Well, then call back when youve decided to, you know . Alfonsi so the doors are open, youre not recruiting. Glassman yeah, were not recruiting, were not barring the doors. I mean, it really is an open house. Alfonsi glassman says he spends most of his time defending the crossfit brand with an iron fist. Glassman if you dont defend it, you wont have a brand for long. We are in sharkinfested waters and ive got sharkrepellent attorneys. Alfonsi how many attorneys do you have working for you now . Glassman dozens. Theyre everywhere. Theyre everywhere. Like freaking leprechauns. Alfonsi the most exercised muscle at crossfit may be this man, their general counsel. He oversees a legal staff of 12, but glassman has hired another 80 eightzero outside law firms to defend its reputation and its trademark. Theyve gone after a Company Selling bogus crossfitbranded jump ropes, taken on gyms in puerto rico and germany who used their name without permission, and are suing the publishers of a study that allegedly contained madeup information about crossfits safety record. Glassman i love my lawyers. I love my lawyers. Alfonsi very few people say that. Glassman i know. Its weird. Alfonsi so how many lawsuits have you been involved in . Glassman 30 or 40. More . 50 . Yeah. Alfonsi have you lost any . Glassman no, won every single one of them. Alfonsi you like the fight . Glassman i do. Yeah. Alfonsi his most tenacious fight revolves around headlines that crossfit could be dangerous, or worse, deadly. Some journalists have questioned how the regimen might be bad for ones back, shoulders, or even kidneys. Because its such a new phenomenon, there arent many studies about the overall safety of crossfit. The few that exist found it to be about as safe as gymnastics or weightlifting, and less likely to cause an injury than running. Greg glassman is so sure its safe, the father of six allowed his future seventh child to be part of this class. Alfonsi to that person whos sitting in their living room saying, this all sounds interesting, but i. You know, ive heard things and i dont want to get hurt . Glassman stay in your chair where youre sure to get hurt, and youll become one of the 300,000 people that will die next year from sitting in their chair doing nothing. He is speedroping up. Alfonsi another reason glassmans been so good at getting people out of their chairs is the success of the Crossfit Games. This year, 273,000 people around the world competed for a chance to be featured in the finals. It is a spectacle part olympic games, part hunger games. And the winner is crowned the fittest man or woman on earth. Announcer Camille Leblanc bazinet alfonsi . A title, youll be shocked to learn, Greg Glassman had his lawyers trademark. He told us no one in the world is in better shape than the games top athletes. You bet the mortgage, not the rent, on. On the. Glassman i bet everything on it. Youre going to come and. And best the games athletes out of nowhere the same way youre going to walk out here on the street and put together a stanley cup challenge out of morons walking by. It aint going to happen. Crossfit games title within reach. Alfonsi the games are sponsored by reebok. Crossfit is credited with reenergizing the reebok brand and boosting sales. Glassman fitness apparel should be technical apparel. Alfonsi but five years into a tenyear deal that may be crossfits most important commercial partnership, glassman has developed some strong opinions about reeboks owners, the German Company adidas, and he wasnt shy about sharing them on 60 minutes. Glassman id like to see reebok sold. Alfonsi to who . Glassman someone young, fresh, excited, and willing to enter into the modern era of. Of things. Alfonsi thats a pretty bold thing. Glassman isnt it . Alfonsi . For you to say. Glassman yeah. Alfonsi does anyone ever say to you, greg, like, you shouldnt say that . Glassman yeah. Ive had people tell me, boy, i. Hes stark raving mad, but he sure is sincere, you know . Like, okay, good. You know i believe it. Across america, people like Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique wilkins. Are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes. With noninsulin victoza®. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. But it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza®. 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