Reach for the Rings (2021)

• Year: 2021
• Released: 25 May 2021
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14043296/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/reach_for_the_rings
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• Genre: Documentary, Sport
• Runtime: 118 min
• Writer: Nic Nakis
• Director: Nic Nakis
• Cast: Jordan Adcock, Justin Cotler, Jessica Coughlan

6.6/10

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In 2019, the top Functional Fitness athletes from around the world converge on Malmo, Sweden to compete in the iF3 Worlds. Over three days of competition, these superlative athletes compete in 6 harrowing “tests” before crowning their World Champions in the Women’s, Men’s, and Teams divisions. Each of the 6 tests challenges a different aspect of fitness. The tests are known as: Endurance, Strength, Bodyweight, Skill, Mixed, and Power. The USA Functional Fitness Team is here for redemption. After dominating on home turf in 2017 and facing disappointment in London in 2018, Coach Justin Cotler plans to stage a comeback and sweep the podium in 2019. Canada’s Alex Parker is here on a personal quest to defeat her “frenemy” and rival, American Jordan Adcock. The two live in the same town, train at the same gym, and share the same coach. They’re neck and neck in every event. The sport of Functional Fitness wants to be an Olympic sport. These 46 National Federations around the globe have banded together under The International Functional Fitness Federation in order to “Reach for the Rings” and achieve their Olympic dream.

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What would happen if CrossFit met the Olympics?

Ok. Let me be honest here. I made this movie. Of course I’m going to give it a great review, but what I really want to do is to give you a sense of what it is and why you ought to watch it. This film was the result of a lot of passion, dedication, and precious time. FUNCTIONAL FITNESS is a sport with audacious ambitions to redefine sports entirely, and to change the way people think about fitness and athletic activities. This is a philosophical movement about preparedness and well-roundedness and big questions like, “how do you find out who is the best at everything?” or, “how do you train to be good at EVERYTHING?”

I’m not supposed to talk about CrossFit, and I didn’t, I didn’t mention that company once throughout the entire 2-hour film. However, I was one of the first 100 people in the world to be involved in CrossFit, back when we looked at it more as a cultural movement and not just a big company with huge corporate deals and a massive media presence. I like to think that this film, and the iF3 itself, is kind of like what CrossFit would have looked like by now if I was in charge. This is like CrossFit got together with the Olympics and made a baby. This is the sport of functional fitness in an international competitive showcase that is organized on a country-by-country basis with democratic, not-for-profit, grassroots federations.

The film follows members of the Canadian and USA Functional Fitness teams as they travel to Sweden to compete for gold in the World Championships of the International Functional Fitness Federation. IF you follow the sport, you will recognize these athletes from the CrossFit Games, Sanctionals, Regionals, and other comps. The film shows all the events of the weekend (6 tests each for 3 divisions of athletes) and explains how the movements are judged, how the tests are scored, and why the athletes were given the tests they were given. The whole nuts and bolts of the iF3 and their World Championships are laid out in an entertaining way with a hip-hop soundtrack, thousands of on-screen graphics, and some incredible athletes.

I hope you like it!

Great Insight into the sport of fitness

A great introduction into the world of the IF3 as they make strides to becoming an Olympic sport.

Inspiring

Great mixture of action and explanations about the sport and the functional fitness federation, and how it relates to CrossFit as a brand. It would be awesome to see this sport in the olympics!

And of course James Fitzgerald is a legend, it’s always good to hear him talk about the sport!