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Change The Hogu And Pass The Kangol
Season 11 Episode 3
A fight-off is supposed to settle things. Instead, it can expose everything that’s shaky underneath a sport’s selection system. Coming back from Dayt…
4 hours ago
How A Surprise Fight-Off Upended The USA Taekwondo Grand Prix Final
Season 10 Episode 2
They trained, they paid, they earned the points and then the rules seemed to change right in front of them. We get into a USA Taekwondo selection con…
5 days, 16 hours ago
Stop Mic’ing Up The Drill Please
Olympic taekwondo is changing fast, and sometimes the clearest signal is what coaches complain about when they think nobody’s listening. We start wit…
1 week, 1 day ago
We Argue About Monkey Kicks And Metrics
A Grand Prix can reveal the future of taekwondo in real time, and Paris did exactly that. We’re coming off the floor with a full breakdown of what fe…
2 weeks ago
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 opportu…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Backflips, Blue Belts, And Boardroom Politics
Season 10 Episode 1
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 Ab…
1 month ago
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 …
1 month ago
What Happens To A Sport When You Keep Moving The Goalposts
Season 9 Episode 5
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 a…
1 month, 1 week ago
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 tr…
2 months, 1 week ago
Roller Skates, Fake Clubs, Real Consequences
You can feel it when a sport starts rewarding politics more than performance, and that’s the nerve we hit here. We talk through the latest AAU Taekwo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago