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Welcome to The World Raw Powerlifting Federation Podcast. Each week our host Alex Uslar interviews different athletes, coaches, business owners, dads who used to bench 405 in high school... YOU NAME IT!
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Its been 15 years since Jordan Wong did his first competition. From competing at raw unity meet, to breaking an ATWR squat and now being a gym owner and meet director, Jordan has been a staple in Florida powerlifting. Tune in to hear his story!
6 1/2 weeks til Power surge, 9 1/2 weeks til WRPF Nationals, 11 1/2 weeks til American Pro and 8 months until The Ghost Clash 4! There is ALOT of action still on the horizon for 2024, tune in to hear about it!
On this weeks episode we are joined by Lawrence Scott the owner of Rockwell barbell, and Matt Blankenberger VP of Rockwell barbell and owner of Ritual Apparel.Rockwell is going on 10 years of being open and a staple in the Chicago powerlifting community.Matt and Lawrence just hosted the 6th annual Midwest challenge.Tune in to hear their story.
Carina Davis AKA QUADZILLA is one of our judges who you see EVERYWHERE, a traveling meet director who goes all up and down the west coast and quite possibly one of the strongest meet directors we have in The WRPF.Tune in to this week's episode to hear her story!
SO you wanna be a meet director and/or open a gym?!On this weeks episode, Alex dives into his long journey into becoming a meet director and then opening a gym and gives some advice and insight.
Liz Strain is a coach, meet director, WRPF state chair and one STRONG masters athlete!
Liz takes us through her approach to running events, business and competing.
Continuing our meet director series is Sean Smith. Sean owns The Chaos Lab gym and runs over 10 meets a year! He has accomplished a lot since finding powerlifting less than 5 years ago. Tune in to hear his journey and advice in opening a gym and running meets.
On this weeks episode we dive into all of the tiers of invites for registration, some rule changes such as weight class changes, and scheduling of sessions for both days!First round of invites goes out on July 1st. WHOS READY!
On this weeks episode we continue our meet director series with Kehaulani Richardson of F.Q Promotions. She is partnered with Micah Marino and run numerous meets across The WRPF and USAPL in Las Vegas!
We are just a few days out from our Mountain Regionals in Draper Utah!Whos ready to qualify for Nationals?!
Powerlifting unity. It has come a LONG way over the years. On this weeks episode we dove into some ongoing powerlifting current events. The main one being Article 14 in the IPF and how it is holding back true unity of the sport.
On this weeks episode of our meet director series, we had a TRUE living legend. Leonetta Richardson.
Leo has been competing for 23 years and meet directing for 15 years.
She takes us through the changes and growth of powerlifting in that time through her lens.
You dont want to miss this one!
On this week's episode we have Heidi Dehnel.
Heidi is our state chair for Alabama, Co-meet director for WRPF Southeast regionals, gym owner and founder of future is female account and podcast.
Heidi takes us back to her early exposures of powerlifting in 2010 and the rise in strong influential female lifters. Into her becoming more involved with meet directing and most recently taking on the state chair position and co director of our sold our Southeastern regionals!
Sergio Luna has been in the game for a long time. We sat down with Sergio and hear about his first exposure to powerlifting in 2010, becoming president of his universities powerlifting club and later opening his gym, Surge to new levels and starting the Power Surge Pro/ Am Meet.
2 1/2 weeks out from MID-AMERICAN REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS on May 18th and 19th. We sat down with meet directors Dustin Kueck and Taylor Sharp to hear all about it!
Celebrating ONE YEAR since this we started this podcast, on this weeks episode we recap The Ghost Clash 3 and begin talking about all of the upcoming regionals events leading into The WRPF Nationals in October!
Hunter Henderson went from seeing her first powerlifting video ever to competing in just a few months. She takes us through her story growing up in a small town, overcoming cancer as a kid, to becoming one of the strongest women to ever live!
Bryan Duncan made a name for himself at the American Pro 3, joining the roster just 2 weeks before the competition and going on to deadlift a massive 942lbs in a 9/9 performance. Bryan wants to be the third person to deadlift 1000lbs in a full power comp. Will he do it at The Ghost Clash 3???
3 1/2 weeks til The Ghost Clash 3!On this weeks episode, Alex dives into the History of The Ghost Clash and him directing pro level competitions and then gives a run down of the STACKED roster.
Jimbo Anthony Cooper hasnt hit the platform since 2019. He had a short career from 2017-2019 before Covid and a temporary retirement.The Ghost Clash 3 will be his return to the platform!




