Masters Alliance Uncut
Honest Conversations with Masters of their craft about life and Olympic Sport Issues
Masters Alliance Uncut
Latest Episodes
Weasel Words, Plane Tickets, And The Grand Prix Pick
Selection should feel like a finish line, not a moving target. After a powerful weekend story from Guatemala that puts gratitude, access, and opportunity into perspective, we shift into a hard look at USA Taekwondo’s Grand Prix selection proced...
Backflips, Blue Belts, And Boardroom Politics
A youth sports organization can survive bad calls on the mat, but it can’t survive rules that only apply when they’re convenient. We sit down with Abdul, a longtime AAU Taekwondo district leader, to unpack why he says AAU Taekwondo governance h...
Die In Advance, Train On Purpose
The best fights are simple. The best training usually is too. We start with a hard-edged mindset from the warrior tradition “die in advance” and use it as a reality check for how we train, how we coach, and how we lead. Then we zoom out to the ...
What Happens To A Sport When You Keep Moving The Goalposts
We catch up after a busy stretch of travel and use Lima and the Korea Grand Prix to question what modern taekwondo is rewarding right now. We argue about rankings, wild cards, selection pathways, and leadership while trying to hold onto the rea...
Stop Buying “Experience” And Start Training
Modern taekwondo has a problem nobody wants to say out loud: if the fastest path to “winning” is just making the chest protector beep, what are we training athletes to become? We get real about the split between building fighters and building p...
