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9th Dan BlackBelt and Olympic Gold Medalist Herb Perez visit with the best and brightest to bring clarity to the future of Martial arts.
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S6E8 If Results Are Guaranteed, What Does Winning Mean
If your second match is already a quarterfinal, something’s off. We dive into the under-21 world championships and ask the hard questions: why did the level feel flat, why were so many divisions…
Magnets In Your Socks Won’t Save You
The lights were brighter, the stages were bigger, and yet the action felt thinner. We unpack a Grand Prix season that looked like a spectacle and too often fought like a glorified open, asking the…
S4E10 How Brazil Made History While The U.S. Fumbled And What That Says About High Performance
A historic medal haul rarely happens by accident. We unpack how Brazil engineered four finalists and two world titles through clear planning, ruthless scouting, and conditioning that didn’t fade in…
Coaching, Outliers, and the Meaning of a Title in Modern Taekwondo
Ever wonder why a world title doesn’t hit the same anymore? We dig into how Taekwondo’s points era reshaped status, strategy, and what “champion” really means. From Grand Prix saturation to the…
Sorry Not Sorry: Your Ritual Isn’t Magic, Foundational Work Is
A few jokes about shirts and travel fade fast into a sharp conversation about what really creates champions: coaching lineage, foundations, and the mindset to break another person’s will. We talk…
S4E7 The Ingredients of a World-Class Taekwondo Program Revealed
What separates momentary success from sustained dominance in athletic programs? In this thought-provoking episode, we dig deep into the architecture of championship development systems with insights…
What Makes Elite Taekwondo Athletes Special?
What makes a champion in combat sports? Is greatness born or built? This fascinating deep dive into the heart of Taekwondo excellence brings together Olympic-level coaches to dissect the qualities…
The Taekwondo Landscape: Brazil's Dominance and Referee Chaos
Welcome to a fresh episode of Warehouse 15, where we're diving back into the taekwondo world after our adventures in Peru. The episode kicks off with light-hearted banter about travel experiences…
S4E3 Kicking and Screaming: When Your Face Shot Breaks a Nose But Scores Zero Points
When a fighter breaks an opponent's nose with a perfectly executed face shot and scores zero points, something is fundamentally broken. Welcome to modern Taekwondo, where electronic sensors have…
When Athletes Shine and Leaders Throw Shade: Taekwondo's Power Dynamics
From the remote venue of Muju, Korea ("the middle of back-ass nowhere," as our hosts colorfully describe it), the Warehouse 15 podcast delivers an unfiltered analysis of the Grand Prix Challenge that…
Medals, Mistakes, and Muju: Taekwondo's Uncomfortable Truths
Truth-telling takes center stage in this candid episode as we pull back the curtain on recent controversies and performances in USA Taekwondo. After connecting with key insiders about the…
Poomsae Drama, Olympic Pathways, and Hawaiian Birds
From the beautiful shores of Maui, this candid conversation dives deep into the current state of Taekwondo with the raw honesty that listeners have come to expect from these Olympic veterans.The…
S4E1 When Champions Speak Truth to Power
Three Taekwondo veterans unpack controversial developments in the martial art with raw honesty and deep expertise, promising "Sorry, not sorry" to anyone who might be offended by their candid…
Ankle Biters and Pinky Rings: Taekwondo's Leadership Problem
The Warehouse 15 crew breaks down major issues in American taekwondo competition structures after back-to-back USAT and AAU tournaments, examining why development has become watered down and what's…
Elite Performance vs. Medal Count: The Success Mirage in American Taekwondo
In this raw and unfiltered episode, we dive headfirst into the transformation of competitive taekwondo from a power-based combat sport to today's point-focused tactical game. The conversation kicks…
The Mayor of Taekwondo Takes on AAU Nationals: Triumphs, Failures, and Everything in Between
When leadership changes at a major competition like the AAU National Championships, what happens to the quality of the event? Olympic medalists and veteran coaches Juan "The Mayor of Taekwondo"…
The Day I Had to Apologize to TJ's Mom
What happens when a combat sport's scoring system fundamentally changes what techniques are rewarded? In this revealing episode, we analyze footage from the Grand Prix Challenge match between CJ…
S3E3 Dad 3- When Magnets Attack: The Hilarious Tragedy of Modern Taekwondo
The dark underbelly of competitive Taekwondo surfaces in this revealing episode as coaches Juan Moreno, Fred Borchardt, and TJ Proe dissect the technical disaster that unfolded at the recent Grand…
No Apologies: Three Champions Take on Taekwondo's Hard Truths
What happens when three Olympic-level Taekwondo masters remove their filters and speak their unvarnished truth about the state of the sport? The Warehouse 15 podcast delivers exactly that as Coach…
Talent ID Camps: Money Grab or Genuine Development?
Three Olympic gold medalists engage in a no-holds-barred critique of USA Taekwondo's latest cash grab – yet another "Talent ID Camp" charging athletes $225 for a chance to be "discovered." The hosts…
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