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 real reason we started doing this in the first place. • Lima President’s Cup takeaways and why performances matter more than medals • Team USA’s results versus how the Pan Am region gets talked about • Grand Prix Korea missing countries and what it does to the draws • Upsets, point inflation, and why rankings can feel misleading early in the cycle • Electronic scoring problems and how game plans adapt to what registers • Wild cards expanding beyond their original purpose and watering down protected events • Grand Prix Challenge changes and the loss of a true development ladder • USAT selection pathway confusion and late-added money events • Parent costs, short match time, and why retention drives the pipeline • Leadership and culture shift as the real bottleneck • Why grassroots teaching and community impact still define taekwondo Send me an email, give me a text, give me a call, go to Facebook and find me, one of my 5,000 friends