USAWA

I am always leery of change, but the latest post on USAWA certainly caught my attention in a good way. I am uncertain that the USAWA as an organization wants or needs growth. It has survived for nearly 40 years and it that total time frame has only had 712 athletes enter the record books. Growth could help stabilize USAWA for the future, especially as founding and long time members take a step back. As an all-volunteer organization, I am not sure how much growth the current structure could support. It may be prudent to set aside a reserve to pay the secretary, treasurer, marketing director, and other positions in the future if we had 500+ members and 100+ sanctioned events per year. Sponsorship is an interesting consideration. How cool would it be to have Rogue Fitness or Arm Assassin Strength Shop sponsor the National Championship. What would they expect in return? Would cash prizes encourage members to travel to the National Championship? Embracing change is hard, but USAWA has embraced change since the beginning. Since its inception, it has more than doubled the contested lifts, created new Championship events, changed the scoring system multiple times and is currently on its 4th logo. Compared to Weightlifting, Powerlifting, Highland Games and Strongman, All-Round Weightlifting has embraced much more change.