throw BIG throw FAR PODCAST

4-Time Olympian Kara Winger and author/journalist Dan McQuaid join Coach Joe Frontier to break down the first half of the 2025 Tokyo World Championships. So far we've seen some of the deepest throwing competitions in history with top performances from the best in the world. Ryan Crouser wins the shot put in his first and only meet of the season. Val Allman finally grabs a World gold to add to her...

Rachel Richeson joins Coach Frontier to talk about her journey as thrower. Rachel started as a sprinter and hurdler in high school, slowly found her way to the throws her junior year after giving the discus a try. After a solid career at Notre Dame University she has found a post collegiate home working with coach AG Krueger at Ashland. Rachel has skyrocketed to #6 on the Women's All-Time Hammer l...

Dr. Kristof Kipp was back at Throw Town Ramona this year and so he's back on the TBTF PodCast giving his analysis of what makes BIG throws go FAR. Kipp, a former thrower himself, is the Director of Motion Analysis and Biomechanics Laboratory at Marquette University. He has spent countless hours in the last few years recording and analyzing data from the World Record and World Class throwing at Thr...

Zac from @everything_throws put together a great squad of talking heads to DRAFT the best SHOT PUT, DISCUS, HAMMER, and JAVELIN Throwers from All-Time and the best moment in throws. I was honored to join in with Grant from @Memes4throwers , Beau from @Beauthrows , and Kevin from @the_throws_zone Great talk about the throwers we love and some tough choices as we had to navigate the rules and catego...

Darrell Hill and Dan McQuaid join Coach Frontier to preview one of the deepest USATF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP fields ever. Val Allman, Ryan Crouser, Chase Ealey and Brooke Andersen all have automatic bids to compete at the World Championships in Tokyo. But with fields boasting maybe the most US athletes ever with World Standards and/ or the World Rankings to qualify, all that's left is to THROW FAR i...

Is it possible we just witnessed the best throws meet in history? Or at least the best non- Olympics / World Championships? The Pre50 DL meet in Eugene, Oregon on July 5, 2025 may have been just that. 5 women over 20m in the shot, 5 men over 22m in the shot. A new American record for Rudy Winkler in the Hammer for a DL Record and WL, he's number 18 on the all-time world list now. Camryn Rogers Bro...

RUDY WINKLER is back on the show after breaking his own American Hammer throw record at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Or. His 83.16m throw bested a deep field of the world's best including the last 2 Olympic Champions. Rudy talks about his training, the camaraderie of the men's hammer group, the goals he has left on his hammer to do list, and much more. Listen Now. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ThrowerX⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ On...

2-Time WORLD CHAMPION - CHASE JACKSON is back on the show to talk about her new American Shot Put Record. Her first round 20.95m at the Ironwood Classic is the best throw in the world in the last 12 years! Chase talks about what her and Coach Paul Wilson have been seeing in training and whether or not 21 and 22 meter shot put throws are on the horizon for women's shot putters. Listen Now. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠T...

NCAA 2024 Indoor and 2025 Outdoor Shot Put Champion, Mya Lesnar shares her journey as a thrower. The Colorado State Senior was the national leader the entire season and sealed the deal with a win in her final meet as a collegiate thrower. Mya has been on a mission to make a name for herself out from the shadow of her famous father Brock Lesnar. She certainly has done that and is looking for more a...

CIERRA JACKSON, Fresno State, won the 2025 NCAA DISCUS Championship in record fashion. Her first round 65.82m throw broke the NCAA Meet Record and the field couldn't catch her. Cierra finished as an All-American in the shot put as well. Cierra shares her journey as a thrower, the mental obstacles of believing in herself and how Coach Joe Ricchio challenged her to take ownership of her throw. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

The Ironwood Classic is quickly becoming one of the premiere throwing meets in the world. Coach TJ Crater- Director at the Ironwood Throws Center helps preview the deepest throws fields this World Continental Tour Bronze level meet has ever seen. June 26 & 28, 2025 Rathdrum, ID will see over 20 olympians compete along with many of the top ranked throwers in the world... Payton Otterdahl, Roger Ste...

Wisconsin Badgers Shot Put Record holder, Jason Swarens has been close to winning an NCAA championship in the past. He thought it would take a 21 meter throw to get the job done, so he went to work last summer with that number and a title on his mind. At the 2025 NCAA Championships in Eugene, round 6, on his last collegiate throw, Jason produced 21.23m for the win. Jason shares his journey as a th...

Kara Winger and Dan McQuaid join Coach Frontier to breakdown the best throws performances at the 2025 NCAA OUTDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS. The D1 field witnessed the deepest Women's discus competition, NCAA Men's Discus Meet record by Ralford Mullings, the Minnesota Greeks going 1-2 in the Men's Hammer, Steph Ratcliffe back on top, Swarens and Kitchell 6th round bombs and so much more! Listen now. ⁠⁠Throwe...

Matt Conly throws coach from D2 power house, Grand Valley State University joins Coach Frontier this week to talk about his journey as a throws coach and the magical environment he's created at GVSU. Conly coached 5 national throws champions last year alone, 13 in total, and has his crew firing on all cylinders as they enter Championship season in 2025. Coach Conly talks about the coaches who have...

Matty Denny is back on the show after his historic discus series of throws at the Throw Town Ramona WORLD INVITATIONAL which included: 17 Throws over 69m, 13 throws over 70m, 5 throws over 73m, 2 throws over 74m including the #2 performance in world history 74.78m. He talks about his discus his technique, the Throw Town Ramona vibe, wind, disappointment, how he's built his resolve to perform well...

Part 2: Mykolas Alekna breaks his own WORLD DISCUS RECORD twice75.56m, Matty Denny produces goes nuclear all weekend long with eleven- 70 meter throws and a 74.78 that makes him #2 all-time. All in All, 11 men broke 68 meters and 6 went over 70 meters. Confirming the legend of the wind conditions at the mecca that his THROW TOWN RAMONA. Listen Now. Throw Town Ramona World Invitational ThrowsPro Eq...

Joe Frontier and Dan McQuaid try to make sense of the shear number of huge throws witnessed at the THROW TOWN RAMONA WORLD INVITATIONAL presented by THROWER X and THROWS PRO. So many good throws we couldn't recap it in 1 episode! VAL ALLMAN shatters her own American Discus Record, Lagi Tausaga breaks the 70m barrier, Jayden Ulrich and Veronica Fraley produce huge throws and so much more. We also t...

German discus thrower MIKA SOSNA is our guest this week. This young German thrower made a name for himself when he broke the U20 Men's Discus Record throwing 71.37m with the 1.75kg implement back in June of 2022. He lit the Throw Town Ramona crowd up with a new PB of 68.96m at last year's World Invite in Oklahoma on his way to being the youngest competitor in the field at last Summer's Paris Olymp...

RYAN CROUSER, 3-Time Olympic gold medalist and WORLD RECORD HOLDER is back on the show to talk about his new WORLD SHOT PUT SERIES event debut coming up on Wednesday, April 23rd at the Drake Relays. We talk about the unique format of the event and why he views it as a such an import time to expand the viewership and audience of the sport, while creating opportunities for throws to get paid as prof...

American discus thrower MARCUS GUSTAVESON joins the show this week. The D2 Concordia St. Paul Alum finished a fantastic 2024 season with a 6th place finish at the US Olympic Trials with a throw of 65.39 on a broken foot. He has started the 2025 season with a massive 70.63m throw at the TCU Invitational on March 21st,2025. He is the first American man to throw over 70m since 1996 (Anthony Washingto...

EPISODE #250 Scott Cappos and Joe Frontier ReCap the 2025 World Indoor Championships. Which saw many TBTF PodCast guests complete and Sweep the Women's and Men's Shot Put Podium. WOMEN MEN Sarah Mitton 1. Tom Walsh Jessica Schilder 2. Roger Steen Chase Jackson 3. Tripp Piperi Then Ryan Whiting joins Scott and Joe to answer some Mailbag questions from throwers. Questions range from how much should...

Vesteinn Hafsteinsson, 4-Time Olympian and Coach of Olympic Discus Champions Gerd Kanter and Daniel Stahl, shares how he was inspired by the titans of US Discus throwing's past: Al Oerter, Jay Silvester, John Powell and Mac Wilkins. Why US Men's Shot Putting is more dominant than the discus now and a possible path forward! ThrowerX Online Resources for Throwers and Coaches who want to get better....

Tripp Piperi sits down for a chat after claiming the 2025 USATF Indoor Men's Shot Put Championship and is headed to Nanjing to compete in his 2nd World Championship. Tripp and Coach Frontier talk about his storied Youth and U20 Career, NCAA Championships, the challenges of going pro, changing coaches, technique changes,conquering self-doubt and much more. ThrowerX Online Resources for Throwers and...

Coach TJ CRATER has worked with some of the best throwers in the world throughout his throws coaching career, Ryan Whiting, Joe Kovacs, Blake Eaton, Jordan Geist, Israel Oloyade to name a few. Today we talk about some of the coaching lessons he learned along the way, coaching HS athletes at the Ironwood Throws Center, the changing NCAA landscape, and much more. TJ will be speaking at the WISTCA Cl...

Welcome to The Throw Big Throw Far Podcast, the show dedicated to the athletes and coaches who push the limits in the throwing world. Today, we’re honored to have a true legend of the sport, AL FEUERBACH, joining us. Al set the shot put world record in 1973 and finished in the top 5 of both the 1972 and 1976 Olympics. In this episode, we’ll explore his journey from a small town in Iowa to travelin...