Masters Alliance Uncut
Honest Conversations with Masters of their craft about life and Olympic Sport Issues
Masters Alliance Uncut
Latest Episodes
Stop The Twerking And Start Running The Event
A tournament can look polished and still be broken where it counts. We get raw about what we saw and heard around recent national-level events and why “finishing early” and flashy announcements do not equal a healthy sport. For us, the real mea...
What If Athlete Development Started At Home
A Memorandum of Understanding might be the most “powerful” document in sports, mostly because it lets everyone pose for photos while nothing changes. We start with that idea and pull the thread all the way through the taekwondo world, where dip...
Why Registration Deadlines Keep Moving In AAU And USA Taekwondo
Deadlines that keep “extending” aren’t just a scheduling quirk, they’re a tell. We dig into what’s happening around AAU Taekwondo and USA Taekwondo national championships, from shifting registration windows to rising fees, and why the numbers m...
World Cup Lessons For Building Champions In Soccer And Taekwondo
The World Cup has us locked in, not just because of the goals, but because it exposes what “excellence” really costs. When we watch the best players in the world and the cultures that surround them, we see something the US keeps struggling to m...
Three Olympic Medalists Versus A $348 Registration Fee
You can feel it when a sport stops rewarding honesty and starts rewarding compliance, and we are not pretending that’s normal. We open with the North Carolina vote fallout and the bigger problem behind it: leadership incentives that push coache...