The choice comes after months of reflection for proprietor Ben Bergeron.
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Editor’s Word: A number of weeks in the past, Ben Bergeron (CF-L4) introduced to his CrossFit New England group that his gymnasium, CFNE, could be de-affiliating from CrossFit. CFNE was established in 2007 and has educated 1000’s of athletes, together with CrossFit Video games Affiliate Cup champs and legends like Mat Fraser, Katrin Davidsdottir, Cole Sager, and Brooke Wells, amongst many others. Beneath, Bergeron gives an open letter to the broader group about what drove this determination. For extra, Ben and Patrick Cummings mentioned this determination on the Chasing Excellence Podcast.
To the Group,
This is among the hardest letters I’ve ever needed to write. After practically twenty years, CrossFit New England can be de-affiliating from CrossFit.
This determination wasn’t made flippantly. It comes after six months of deep reflection, conversations, and wrestling with what’s finest for our gymnasium and our group. And whereas I do know in my coronary heart that that is the appropriate path ahead, I additionally really feel an unimaginable weight in saying goodbye to one thing that has meant a lot to me for thus lengthy.
I owe a lot to CrossFit. It formed my profession, my teaching, my friendships, and my household. It launched me to a few of the finest folks I’ve ever identified. It redefined and revolutionized health, and for that, I’ll all the time be grateful. However on the similar time, we’ve reached some extent the place our values now not absolutely align with CrossFit HQ.
At CFNE, we consider in humility, honesty, and duty. Because the tragic occasions of final yr’s Video games, it has grow to be tougher and tougher to reconcile these ideas with the choices and lack of accountability, possession, and transparency proven by CrossFit HQ.
I’m not enthusiastic about this determination, and I’m not making it emotionally or rapidly. I’ve spent the final six months considering the appropriate path ahead, as I consider that management means making the appropriate determination, even when it’s the exhausting one — and that is exhausting.
We constructed our gymnasium on the idea that health is about a lot extra than simply understanding. It’s about forging deep, significant connections — creating an area the place folks present up not only for themselves however for one another. The place they are often genuine, susceptible, and beloved. A spot with out drama or negativity, simply progress and good vibes.
As that imaginative and prescient turned clearer, staying affiliated with CrossFit began to really feel like a limitation fairly than a help. And that’s not the way it needs to be. A reputation on the door shouldn’t maintain us again from absolutely dwelling out what we consider in.
So, we’re stepping ahead.
Transferring ahead, CrossFit New England will grow to be CompTrain New England. We have now been a CompTrain Health club and have adopted CompTrain programming for a decade now, so nothing else has modified — our group, our teaching, and our mission stay the identical. We’ll proceed to coach, to develop, to construct one thing we’re pleased with.
Thanks to everybody who has been part of our gymnasium’s journey.
With deep gratitude,
Ben
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