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Episode 19 - Recap from the European Championships with Mario Glasnovic

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    The European Championships took place last week in Manchester and, we now take a look at the event, the surprises and the challenges. Our guest this week is Mario Glasnovic, from Croatia, Olympic Coach.

  In this episode, Coaches César Valentim, Peter Nestler and Mario Glasnovic have a nice chat about the recently completed European Championships.

  Together we Coach Mario Glasnovic, we comment the Europeans and discuss what can be expected in the upcoming Grand Prix. We talk about the challenges in the upcoming months, with the GP Finals and the World Championships in Mexico.

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Speaker 1:

Have you been looking for a TaeKwonDo podcast with qualified people who know what they're talking about? Who help you keep up with everything going on in the TaeKwonDo world? Well, you found it. This is the TaeKwonDo podcast. Tew do news competitions and other events, training and sports science, keeping the fans, coaches and high performance athletes up to date with the latest news and trends on Olympic Tew. Do let's do this. This is the TaeKwonDo podcast. And now your host coach Caesar Valenti team and Peter Nestle.

Speaker 2:

Hello and welcome to the Teon podcast. We're a podcast plays out of Austria in English language for everyone out there like Teon do. In this episode, we talk with MI GLA Novi, Olympic coach and renowned Teon trainer. We'll analyze the European championships and discuss the upcoming event. Welcome to our podcast. I'm coach Cezar Valenti. And with me, our coach Peter nester and Mario GLA Novi. Hi, Peter, how are you?

Speaker 3:

Hello, CIS, sir. I'm fine. We have a special guest today.

Speaker 2:

Yes. Hi, Mario. How are you?

Speaker 4:

Uh, hello, C and Peter. Well, little bit tired of my trip from Manchester yesterday came home really late, but it's sleep

Speaker 2:

Well. This is the first time we were having three people on the show and we were doing over video conference so we can actually see each other. Um, people know about me. They know about Peter, but about you Mario, for everyone out there who doesn't know who you are. Can you please tell us a bit about yourself?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I'm a coach started in coaching Sweden, uh, and, uh, went back to Croatia because I'm originally from Croatian. So I, um, went back to Croatia with, uh, two end of two. We had some difficulties and, uh, not, we didn't get so long with the system, the new system there. We had head coach. So we, when that started to not be so good with the Federation thought then to go to CRO, because there you have, we have lot of, uh, opportunities, sparring and, uh, good.

Speaker 2:

Well, I'm very happy to have your other podcast that has bit subsid we've discussed for many months. You're an avid listener, but there was no better moment than right now, just right after the European championships and before the first grand previous season. So let's talk about Europeans first, since you just arrived to Manchester, what are your thoughts about this event?

Speaker 4:

I Manchester, uh, was 12, I think.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, first

Speaker 4:

European championships and world championships is one format. Uh, their Europeans is a little bit different and I have to say that the, the, the first European we had there, it was much better than this one, sorry to say, but there was not so much development and it should have been like 10 years now, at least I think so it should have been some development, but their organization was not on the top timeframes. Yeah, I know that they have, they had BBC for the finals, but, uh, maybe they should start the competition little bit later, give people bit time to rest in

Speaker 2:

The event was pretty fast in the morning. You had the preliminary all the way to quarter finals in the morning, more or less<laugh> some quarter finals in the last days were already after the lunch break. And then the semi finals, you would be over around three, go four hours ago, tell'em, come back to the finals. And I think that it does, it does impact the players. Um, but the audience as well, and it's, and many times people do not stay for the files because of just coming back to the venue. What do you think about the fact that they had TaeKwonDo Andon together?

Speaker 4:

I like that it was really, for me was not. So it was really interesting. I'm uh, uh, I hope they'll continue with this because now I know we had less people who was competing Europeans. I think this Europeans had least amount of people that I've seen for a long time, uh, in the, the, the biggest, uh, category 68 kilos man, it was 29 persons that haven't happened for a long time.

Speaker 2:

Why do you think it happened? Uh, due to COVID financial reasons due the teams decided to, to be more careful with denominations?

Speaker 4:

No, but we have lots of two teams normally, you know, Russian be Russia. That's first, their Russian Russians come in, lot of from the qualifications and comes with people. But then I think also, also, um, I'm looking at Sweden, Sweden sent, I think for persons, lot of had problems with, for example, have to pay everything by Sweden, pay everything by themselves. Lot of countries now have to pay everything by themselves.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Portugal, the same Austria didn't pay all the costs. And, uh, there was also some visa problems. Some of the athletes were not allowed to travel

Speaker 4:

One because, okay, that was little bit maybe, maybe Serb fault. Cause they got visa, but the boy got bit late. So very had to fly out and visa was filled 18 years. So in the visa that gal was, uh, was forced to be him and then they didn't let him play. That was the problem. The rest of the team came, but late came at the same day of Wayne for example. So it was little bit, uh, disturbing for visa also cause of England, you know? So yeah, that part that's, I don't think that was maybe the major problem. The visa, I think major problem is the economics consideration.

Speaker 2:

The, yes, the event was expensive, the hotels and all the

Speaker 4:

Really

Speaker 2:

Traveling,

Speaker 4:

I think the cheapest cheapest was like double was 20 pounds. That's that's more the Euro huge money. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

The event of venue itself, the location is quite interesting. And for maybe for the ones watching its live or the audience was fun, but for us as coaches, it was a little bit chaotic, very, uh, small, warm up areas. Um, the entrance to the field was over and Lyes indoor track. It was not exactly the, the nicest venue to have such a big event. You

Speaker 4:

Know, we had, we had the, yeah, you, you saw by yourself that small room we had there. And uh, some people training, they were not supposed to be there, but they were there, you know, they're trained cause they need to train for the next day for the event and so on for their competition day, not where nowhere and where they had this coffee shop. And I dunno, they, they, they have some para demonstration for the kids and that's okay. I understand that they need some space to be, but for the main part of the competitors, they didn't have so much space to be on and were like, I dunno, 200 person, two 50 persons, uh, who was watching from the teams. And we were like pushed teams squeezed into a small, small, small of the place where you had really bad view and

Speaker 2:

Not to come on the last two days because they were sold out.

Speaker 4:

I think they, uh, I remember back, uh, back when we there last time, then they'd had like two, two, uh, wings, uh, for spectators that's much better. Cause the people who, who was, uh, playing could sit on one side and the audience other side, but now they, they, they didn't like you Bulgaria when we had this think you there, they squeeze us in something. Yeah, totally horrible

Speaker 2:

For us. Those are the, some of the bad sides. There were some good stuff. The transport was always on time. There was plenty of buses going back and forth to the hotels. The warmup area was very well organized, very big. And with time slots for every team, sometimes all the teams at the same time was a little hard, but they managed to do it quite okay. There was always water for the players and the coaches, this it's Manchester has some good, good things going on. They had very nice volunteers, but then of course those little small logistical stuff like getting a bigger warmup area would be interesting or even more places for us to sit. What about you, Peter? You were watching it online. How did it look from

Speaker 3:

Yes. It's always a very different world when you watch it online. So for me as a spectator, by the live streams, it was quite okay. Just a different lighting was a little bit, uh, funny because it was some chords quite dark. What I very much liked was the inserts they did. So they had inserts when someone punched when someone kicked. So that was spectated was really okay. Let's say that

Speaker 2:

The little bit confusing that, uh, labeling the Oracles with the players name were the red would come on top. We were used in Teo that the blue comes first. So it was sometimes a little bit confusing.

Speaker 3:

Yes. And also one time I think they, the insert had the wrong, uh, person winning, but it's okay.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Or they still had Oracles from the last fight. Um, that's technology<laugh> sometimes it't match up for us in Manchester. It was nice that we were in not hotel rooms and you can turn on the BBC and watch, um, the, the life finals or you could even connect to a wireless, uh, internet and use the eye player from BBC. But how do you manage to watch the finals? Did you watch them at all here in Austria?

Speaker 3:

I watch some of them, but not all of them. Um, there is ways to get BBC as well. No problem. Uh, we know. Yeah, basically it was fine. Good quality. Yeah. Can't complain on that.

Speaker 2:

Moving a little one to what really happened, the matches, uh, Peter, any big surprises on the metal distribution,

Speaker 3:

Uh, when you look at the metal distribution, well, one thing is obvious as Russia is, uh, missing. They were the best in the last two, uh, Europeans. Um, so they're missing at all in the moment. Um, there was a little surprise that, uh, France got up quite, uh, far that Spain, uh, did not go through, uh, till all the final. So dunno that from the big, I think, uh, yeah, that's it Russia, clearly we all's for countries.

Speaker 2:

What Mario.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. Like said some. Well, she, uh, I saw some, uh, new people who were jumping up. Boston had a really, was really good. Um, didn't do til the end, but she did quite good matches and I was really for, and shouldn't told me that I shouldn't be surprised, but you know, when you haven't seen him on, on the, on the field of place before so much, then you are surprised normally when you see that he's fighting so good. This guy in also, so we had a lot of people who like flower, uh, in this competition, but then, uh, as usual, lot of people that thought should lost, like, yeah, that is what, you know, this is maybe the beauty with this game that, uh, you're not really super sure that you just cause you're number one in world that you can win Jade lost. Uh, sadly, because I, I like Jade. She's really good. Fighter's no discussion about Jade. Jade is really, really tremendous fighter, uh, tremendous fighter. Yeah. You sell that and she didn't get a medal. Uh, so that was the disappointing, I think, most for her and Brun thing, medal lost the second game also with girl who, yeah, that that's, I didn't

Speaker 2:

No, no. Jane is, uh, definitely not a favorite. Uh, or it wasn't one of the favorites, I think in 62, Marta kava was expected to be the favorite Spanish girl and she was eliminated on the first match. Um, of course, when you look at 46, it's nice to see, uh, Le Tanovic AIC get her title, but then in 49 you get me from Turkey. That was the, the surprise of the year. The results she had all year was very good and was eliminated before,

Speaker 4:

Uh, with, with 49. I was really, uh, my chin fell down when I saw her. Yeah. She's, she's so tremendous. I told everybody that everybody girl, they would get beat the S of her because she's, she's, she's she's, she's like Lauren was when Lauren became world championships in here, univers in Canada. This third girl is at number two.

Speaker 2:

<laugh> like in two 16, when Laura Williams did in, they eventually was amazing me. I, I had a unfortunate situation of having her on the first match in the president's cup<laugh> so I know how hard it is. Um, my players scored a good first round, but then the second round was over Merve, just put the foot on the pedal. And it was what it was. She won on that event to Adrian, the Olympic who silver medalist by 19 point difference. She won later again in, I think, um, Sweden by four points difference and this time on the golden round, but she still won and she was a champion. And again, the 53, we get, uh, uh, Z ADI. So defending her title and goes all the way to the big surprises there. But 57 for sure. 57 was seeing Sadan winning against John was very, very interesting

Speaker 4:

Because it's not just like said in 62, there was, did her job, did her, did what she was supposed to do. But like I said was, for me, was I, when I look at surprising of

Speaker 2:

Especially that's great, Britain only got two goals.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. But you know, it's, uh, it's not that you to, that's one thing, but, uh, they have their up and downs like everybody else. So I think anyway, Britain should be to that, that good measures Bradley did what was think also, and they are going to the Olympics. So for them, these points are really important, even though they're everyone. So, you know, everything can happen.

Speaker 2:

And while seeing, seeing medicine more out of the medals, seeing, uh, Lauren only with LeBron, seeing Jay only with LeBron seeing, uh, Rebecca, uh, losing the way she did, it was a, a big surprise for them. As Peter said, also friends being, gathering the position, uh, up there since they're the hosts of the next Olympics overall, it seems that, uh, next world championships and the next year there's, again, world championships. They're gonna be quite interesting with a lot of competition from countries and from players that we were not expecting. Um, but this was the last big event with the old set of rules. And what you think about the decision from UU to run this event with those rules, Mario?

Speaker 4:

Uh, I think that's good that we did the old rules. Uh, but now when I, I tried the Spain, he so have to, he, he win. He didn't like the referees cause the was poor in, in, uh, in Spain. Uh, okay. They can say that they were educates or whatever, but in the, in, in the end of the day, it's just a, you know, it's not, you can change three rules and this is like, we are driving and we are changing maybe something with the car, small it's, it's not that you can drive, still know how to drive. So this is thing. So, so I think it was good. And I think they should have implemented not the whole concept now in, in Thero Prix. I should, I think they should have maybe started to, to, to just, uh, test it little bit more before they're doing it. But I, from my point of view, I think something can be good of that. Not everything, but the round system is more or less the same because if you fighting on the old system, the guy who will win, he take points in each that's I think, and this is also that's somebody have to win around. That's also a good thing. Why should they now go split position on one, two or three rounds? Because it could be, I've seen a lot of matches zero zero in three rounds.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Between Spain and the grand PR, you will see that the clin will be very different now are not allowed to push without kick and you're not allowed to push so long. So some things will change. One of the things that I and understand about, uh, looking the pan American championships and looking in the Canadian qualification tournament where you use the updated new rules, the events will be a little more dynamic on the first rounds, but on the other hand, they will be a little slower due to the video replace. And that's something that, uh, we can talk about a little bit over after the break. This podcast is supported by Hawkin dynamics. Hawkin dynamics believes that technology is most useful when it stays out of your way. That's why Hawkin developed the world's first wireless force plate system with extreme usability. It is the quickest, easiest to use and most robust solution on the market. It is trusted by all sports organizations, large and small, as well as tactical military and rehabilitation environments around the globe. It's forced testing in the Palm of your hand here at Vinte Hondo center, we use Hawking dynamics to test and monitor our team. The cloud-based platform allows us to access data and publish a variety of reports on the go. My favorites are trend reports and of course, weight reports where I can monitor different metrics to view progress and identify performance indicators, or to compare weights to a baseline data range. I use it on a daily basis to identify readiness. A simple jumping test takes me less than a minute to assess the entire team, having my own hawing dynamics force plate allows me to test reactive strengths. Maximum strands rate of force development is symmetry and so much more. The realtime feedback on the app is useful not only for testing, but as a training tool, making it more accurate. And at the same time, more engaging for the athletes. If you're interested in learning more about Hawkin dynamics or getting your own, the team can be reached@infohawkindynamics.com or on Instagram or Twitter at Hawkin dynamics.

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Speaker 1:

You're listening to the tech one do podcast. Now back to your hosts, coach Caesar, Valenti team, and Peter Nestler.

Speaker 2:

So welcome back. We've been here with Molavi and Peter Nestler talking about European championships. Uh, one of the things that I noticed it was that the equipment wasn't up to the challenge again, and especially the, a gear filter, registered many good scoring tech years with the new rules, the matches would be much longer with all the coaches asking for video replay cards for that I'm happy in one way that it was, uh, not delaying the matches so much in the other hand. And as, uh, it was very sad to see that many, uh, heads kicks didn't score and they decided some of the matches. Uh, it would be totally different metal, uh, winners. If the, if the head scores would, would be working. Ma do you agree that the ability to request IVR, uh, for these gigs or should the rules be adapted to speed up the matches?

Speaker 4:

I think we have so good technol technology overall that I can't understand why they, they can find a way to, to the sensors to feel the face kick because, uh, that's the first part, second part. I think we should increase, uh, the, the power on the head, just that's that's, uh, you know, back in the days when we didn't have electronics, if you kicked light referee didn't, they didn't look at you, you had to really do a good impact. And if you wanna, now we have, I think, five for the

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes. Juste the touch,

Speaker 4:

I think should least should have. Then you would also get rid of all theses that of floundering with, I think they, that these kicks would disappear. Uh, but then you have thes with, with the head, like now I, yesterday day before yesterday, people were kicking the helmets. Often they were not react

Speaker 2:

To be fair. Sometimes they were not kicking with the foot.

Speaker 4:

No, no know, I know, I understand. But for me been this discussion about how come that we like community didn't go to companies and give them like a paper and Is for me sad because, uh, we have so many people with so much knowledge. I thinks that we could easily done to pay force with paper and just wrote down and said, this is what we want for our electronic helmet or, uh, vest.

Speaker 2:

And what about the punches

Speaker 4:

First day? You saw it by yourself, the finals, the first final, uh, of the first day, I think was 10 punches from one competitor, 10 points each time she touched not. OK. Punch you had a discussion on think two, two episodes ago about maybe taking them away or, uh, yes. Punch could be a good solution. I just say could be a good solution because then we are getting rid of one problem. Or like KP said the back in the special plate, special the, with the special sensor in the glove and that sensor could just, when hit that points scored with the pressure. That's also, I think, but then, then somebody says yeah, of the funds. So, um, I'm going bit, maybe take it away. I don't know. I dunno. I'm really confused there.

Speaker 2:

So the, the competition formats in, especially in the G2 events, they have huge number of participants. You see the federations being under event, organizers being a little bit greedy. Don't putting a cap on registrations or saying, okay, we are only taking 400 people. And in the end they take 1000 people. Um, you go there for long days of waiting for one match. Do you think we should change our formats? Even at Europeans, look at other combat sports where they have a group and then they have a elimination.

Speaker 4:

Its very hard for 40 last 40 something years had done the same knows hard. And sometimes I'm really when they're doing the day of day's, like I said, it's know. Um, I know back in Korea, two 11, the Canadian 62 girl, she got punched on the hand, the, the hand was up the arm. She could fight to when she went home, thewell didn't allow compete the next day. So she lost. So they also have a, I think we have, I said, but like I said, it's depending how you are as a competitor, uh, how you now we don't get so much injuries also in TaeKwonDo. Cause it's so much light. So maybe it's OK to have it. I dunno. But

Speaker 2:

Do you think, I think the injuries, um, they don't happen so much because you don't have so much performance difference between the players. You used to have very good players and you'd have countries that would go to these events and have no experience. And of course, when you have a very good player with a very unexperienced player, the injuries will happen. And if you see the beginner tournaments, the collar belt tournaments, that's where the biggest injuries happen because they're not fit or they're not clean when they're kick or there is too much, uh, difference in performance and they get injured. And I think they can do developing to a point that each country is a podium contestant it's, uh, minimizes the risk of injuries. You have better players have fitter players and uh, they don't hurt themselves so much. Um, what about you, Peter? What do you think,

Speaker 3:

Uh, just about the injuries? Uh, I agree with you sister it's, uh, the standardization we have is, uh, very common now. So the level is not that there is not such a big gap in the level, but it's also the rules that brought to lighter te uh, which was intended by joining the Olympics that is clear trend. Uh, and many people are criticizing, but it's, uh, its the case. And uh, when we stay in Olympics, it has to be like, um, the other thing is at the event, um, was the question

Speaker 2:

Basically you go to a tournament and there is all these thousand people competing. You spend a plane ticket at a hotel entry fees. You go there, do one match and go home. And sometimes it's, uh, a little unfair for the beginners to spend so much money for just one fight. Mm-hmm

Speaker 3:

Yeah. I agree with Mario that, uh, from the viewpoint of the athletes and the coaches and the teams, all those participating, it's better to have it like now. So have everything on the same day, just different. The weight classes may on different days that's okay. But for the spectators and for the development of techn, for sponsors in whatever, it would be better to create a big event, which is on finals to have a, a group face, whatever you have to look at, uh, other sports like, uh, karate and whatever. So they do it like that and the audience is big then. So you cannot sell an event like it is now with 10 hours of competing, that's clear to, to the audience, to uh, TV stations to whatever. So that should be taken into account. So it's two different sites. It's the active ones, that's they in one package it's, it's easier, it's cheaper, it's easier. And so, and on the other end you could have the real elite events in the moment. You're, they're doing it with WTS, doing it with company with those things, but it could be different. Could also be for the worlds of the continental championships.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. Talking about having leagues. So having some, a pool of players competing in some events and uh, elite players competing in our events and trying not to mix them. That's<laugh> even more advanced system. I think there's a lot of it deserves its own episode moving onto the upcoming competitions. But Mario, you wanted to say something.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. I think this year was special tournament G2 next it's so just, and just two twos per uh, it's going, going back to normal. But I just here that we shouldn't maybe, maybe like you said before, see Wes who's coming and don't mostly, they don't think what, why, why do I go to a G2 event? Maybe they shouldn't go a G2 tournament, not GS, but a lot of people they think, no, no, I want to go there to try that best one there, but usually fails, fails. And then they lose the first match. They, they should be aware of that easily can lose the first match

Speaker 2:

About the next events. Some of the things that we'll have to worry, uh, it's the upcoming world championships. We know they're gonna be in Mexico. We don't know in which city there have been talks at maybe Guadalajara will be the new host, but we don't even have a date. We have grand PR uh, again in Manchester in of October. Do you worry about these things?

Speaker 4:

Yeah. So the arena is so super nice. I like that arena because it's really, really good for that arena. Number one, number two that, um, we know exactly we have that problem with the new rules, but except the rules that both Manchester, I think Paris will also be good Manchester then Shanghai, Shanghai. That's what it is. So we have a problem there and I know that Chinese people are forcing WT to, to do the competition there, but I dunno how, and, and then we have the second problem. That's they want to give one extra space to, to one Olympian from the grands slam. What happened when we can't have a grants slam or nobody wants to go there or blah, blah, something Chinese that then, then we have a paid sixth place. Yes. Or they take it

Speaker 2:

In China. They canceled the, the world university games, uh, university world games because of COVID. And it would be in August obvious or July, June, whatever the summer. And then the summer is much easier for, uh, to organize events due regarding COVID protocols. But then in November or October, having the grand Prix final already in the peak of the flu and COVID seasons very dangerous.

Speaker 4:

Ah, I think so too. We'll see what happens.

Speaker 2:

<laugh> and they also have this new, uh, mood open grand Prix challenge.

Speaker 4:

I can't understand why they are doing that because then you take away a place because what I understand of all this thing that you should meet 32 players, but then you take the 32 spot of a guy who has paid a lot of money to go to competitions, to get points. Then he's refused to, to go there.

Speaker 2:

This, um, they give two spots for the players that compete at the open grand challenge. The event is only open for players ranked below 70 into Olympic ranking. So you get the players that are on the 60 or 65, 68. They are too low to go to the grand Prix. And they're too high to go to the open, the grand Prix challenge.

Speaker 4:

Really, really strange way of thinking. But what do you think? Is it so strange

Speaker 3:

Excludes the ones that are proceeding, uh, may higher, as you said, you're allowed to do that one. You cannot do the other one. So that's a little weird thinking would raised the, I would've, uh, raised a level from, from the cut, but I dunno what the intention was with that.

Speaker 2:

Well, let's put it this way. Uh, you can take four players per weight division and the host country Korea can have five and the event is gonna be in Muji in June with all the expenses of traveling to Korea. Especially when you get to outline just a month before the event, you know, the flight tickets will be terribly expensive going there to compete against 150 Koreans.

Speaker 4:

But you know, that's get what 31, 32 or

Speaker 2:

Yes, they get to 31 and 32 actually the 29 and sorry, the 30 and 31, because 32 goes to the country.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. Top four players in the second match, I think, or something. So it's not, it's not OK. Give people a chance. Yes. Somewhere. I think they should have let, uh, the people who is really in top 70 gave them a chance or told them that just the people from top 50 to top 70 can be there on this competition. Something like that. I dunno. Just something like that.

Speaker 2:

I think that, uh, the fact that term is just a G one. It'll disencourage a lot of people to go.

Speaker 4:

Yeah, nobody will go there because this, like you said, it's G one super expensive to go there. The hotel in is super expensive for what get, you know, it's ski and you have nothing to do there. That's the biggest problem when you come there, you are like in Coco. Yeah. You can do anything. So, so it's, uh, I dunno what to think about that. But uh, for me, the worst problem is that where the, that that's really, and, and you know, now we have like, not even two years left to, to compete for points. We have just one half year left. So there's not so much to, to it's much, but it's time is running away and it's and tied. Lot of countries, like I said to you, they don't have much more. And if you just doing the pen and paper calculation till December two, three mm-hmm lot of money spent there.

Speaker 2:

Well, I guess we have, uh, enough topics, uh, to go for another episode, Mario. I think we'll invite you again. Even I haven't talked about it, new goal systems and all these things, a lot to talk about. Uh let's uh, have you over again.

Speaker 4:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Thank you Mario. Thank you, Peter. It was a pleasure being here with you again and with everyone who was listening. This was the techno podcast. If you haven't already listened to our episodes that are available wherever you listen to your podcasts, we are releasing new episodes. Every Tuesday, stay tuned, subscribe to the podcast, leave us a positive review and share it with your friends. See you next time

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You've been listening to the Techon do podcast, keeping the fans, coaches, and high performance athletes up to date with the latest news and trends on Olympic TaeKwonDo. Your host coach Caesar Valenti team has almost 20 years of experience with high performance Tew do and has worked all around the world as a Teon do trainer. Peter Nestler has been teaching Teon dough for more than 20 years, and he's currently one of the top referees in Europe. We hope you enjoyed the show, make sure to like rate and review and we'll be back soon. But in the meantime, find us on Instagram at tech. One do podcast on Facebook at tech, one do cast and the website tech one do podcast.com. See you next time.

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