#186 DJ Sansone & Ashton West - The Yard Gym

So you guys are repping the Yard Gym today, and the Yard Gym is a franchise, but it's a young franchise, specifically in the United States.

I want to say it started in Australia.

It started

in Australia in 2020.

And they opened up over 200 of these things in Australia.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know if we've hit quite 200.

So about five, six years ago originated.

And the origin story is incredibly fascinating.

During COVID, Dan Bova, our CEO, our founder, was having all of his friends over to train.

And DJ, jump in if I'm misremembering the founding story here.

But they would train since all the gyms were closed down.

And Dan was a trainer at F45 for years and owned multiple studios.

And I think they would, you know, they trained at.

parents house in the backyard or wherever and as folks would come over for sessions they would pitch in you know and to buy more equipment more pieces and that's really where the yard started and you know that's where the kind of the community began and in the last five or six years I think there's been upwards of 400 territories sold globally and like what about 100 active sites globally

Yeah, I think on the southern hemisphere, there's close to 100 sites right now.

And then United States, they've sold roughly how many territories is it

now? I thought globally it was around 400 globally.

That's what I read is it was over 200 have already been sold.

They're due to be open, if you will.

Incredible.

I don't even think Dan would tell you.

I don't think anybody could have expected this amount of...

this reaction and how impactful it's been in every market.

Well, we're not in the fitness space.