Seth DeMoor upcoming races shoe choice

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1. Seth thoroughly dissed the Alphafly.

2. Kofuzi starts off most of his shoe review videos by stating that he purchased with his own money.

3. Kofizi posted a video about how much he makes as a youtuber and its basically enough to pay for his shoe collection and go out to dinner once a week.

I respect & appreciate that these guys are passionate about making these entertaining videos about running. Time way better spent -vs- trolling on internet forums, or trolling on someones youtube channel. Further more, i think that if you dont actually watch and understand someones content then you should keep their name out your mouf.

SDM got stuck into some new Nikes not so long ago (reacts I think?)

Congrats on choosing his selection I guess

ViperDom wrote:

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1. Seth thoroughly dissed the Alphafly.

2. Kofuzi starts off most of his shoe review videos by stating that he purchased with his own money.

3. Kofizi posted a video about how much he makes as a youtuber and its basically enough to pay for his shoe collection and go out to dinner once a week.

I respect & appreciate that these guys are passionate about making these entertaining videos about running. Time way better spent -vs- trolling on internet forums, or trolling on someones youtube channel. Further more, i think that if you dont actually watch and understand someones content then you should keep their name out your mouf.

I will not refuse to speak the name Kofuzi. I am very welcome to discuss the guy. He is actually trying to be noticed and discussed by us, in fact. I have nothing to say about him other than;

I watched him give a review. He said Nike funds him and/or his channel. I'm not saying it's true. He may have been exaggerating and bragging. He was, at that time, very Nike loyal according to what he said in the video in question. That actually made it believable since he felt he had to hem and haw and backpedal when he said he liked a NB shoe. Clicked off after the admission or false claim or whatever it was when he said he's beholden to the Swoosh. So one could say it is true that I don't watch him. Nevertheless, I made the mistake of watching a few minutes once. After hearing him claim the Nike connection I was no longer interested in him. A non-objective reviewer is no reviewer at all in my opinion.

I watched him one more time. Sat through all several minutes that time. It was about how much money he makes from YouTube. Went on and on. Somewhat interesting, I will admit. Not saying the guy's cool or that he sucks. I have about 10 minutes experience with him, so don't know much. I certainly remember what I heard as that is why I didn't watch again until the episode bragging about how much he pulls in (which is more interesting to me than drooling over Nike, which he certainly did inthe first one I saw).

You seem to acknowledge the second one, that I watched all the way through. It might have been a few years older than the version of 'How much do I make?' that you saw. I wouldn't be surprised if he's churned out several of these. Let me be very clear though, that the 2017 top-3 or whatever I stumbled across, did NOT start with him saying he paid for anything. I do not dispute your claim of Seth's Alphafly assessment. All I dispute is that, years ago, he was somehow Nike affiliated and loyal. And, that I am welcome to discuss him.

To clarify: Kofuzi was once somehow Nike affiliated. And I am welcome to discuss him and his content. Some might have thought I meant Seth, who may or may not like the Alphafly.

Get a job.

have to say it..... wrote:

To clarify: Kofuzi was once somehow Nike affiliated. And I am welcome to discuss him and his content. Some might have thought I meant Seth, who may or may not like the Alphafly.

Yeah, Kofuzi used to do some training with Nike. He discussed it in a lot of his older videos.

That being said, how on earth does someone: get special training with Nike, put in 60-100 mile weeks for years, and yet struggle to break a 6 minute mile or a 40 minute 10k? Did Kofuzi fall off the 'no talent tree' and hit every branch on the way down? Or is his training just all wrong?

If I was anywhere near competitive and in the running to win, or win some kind of prize. I would be wearing a new pair as well. If having a new pair will help him mentally and have that peace of mind knowing he is ready. By all means that is what he should do.

SlowFox wrote:

have to say it..... wrote:

To clarify: Kofuzi was once somehow Nike affiliated. And I am welcome to discuss him and his content. Some might have thought I meant Seth, who may or may not like the Alphafly.

Yeah, Kofuzi used to do some training with Nike. He discussed it in a lot of his older videos.

That being said, how on earth does someone: get special training with Nike, put in 60-100 mile weeks for years, and yet struggle to break a 6 minute mile or a 40 minute 10k? Did Kofuzi fall off the 'no talent tree' and hit every branch on the way down? Or is his training just all wrong?

I'd wager he runs too much and would do better on half the mileage but at a faster pace. He has comparatively good endurance but lacks speed (bad 10k and 5k times versus his HM and marathon times)

SlowFox wrote:

put in 60-100 mile weeks for years, and yet struggle to break a 6 minute mile or a 40 minute 10k?

I think you might be overestimating his running. He's averaging 60mpw this year.

April 2017-2018 he never went over 56 miles in a week

2018-2019 he hit 76 miles once but seemed to cycle up through 36-66mpw most of the year.

2019-2020 finally started to get into the 60-100mi range pretty regularly but even that skewed way more towards the 60 end.

So maybe technically true and your point probably still stands, but not QUITE as long and high as you're indicating.

dafuqutalkinbout wrote:

SlowFox wrote:

put in 60-100 mile weeks for years, and yet struggle to break a 6 minute mile or a 40 minute 10k?

I think you might be overestimating his running. He's averaging 60mpw this year.

April 2017-2018 he never went over 56 miles in a week

2018-2019 he hit 76 miles once but seemed to cycle up through 36-66mpw most of the year.

2019-2020 finally started to get into the 60-100mi range pretty regularly but even that skewed way more towards the 60 end.

So maybe technically true and your point probably still stands, but not QUITE as long and high as you're indicating.

Doesn´t matter. Even if he is only averaging 60 mpw he should be able to break 35 easily even if he has little talent.

SlowFox wrote:

Yeah, Kofuzi used to do some training with Nike. He discussed it in a lot of his older videos.

That being said, how on earth does someone: get special training with Nike, put in 60-100 mile weeks for years, and yet struggle to break a 6 minute mile or a 40 minute 10k? Did Kofuzi fall off the 'no talent tree' and hit every branch on the way down? Or is his training just all wrong?

Probably some of both, he pretty much only runs slow and has no speed. From what I can tell, it doesn't look like he pushes himself as hard as he could in his workouts. Running while swinging a lightsaber around isn't doing himself any favors either.