Episode 61. Returning Grand Champion in AAU Karate
The conversation
About Kaden Middleton.
Kaden Middleton sat down for Kumite Lifestyle. That conversation is episode 61, “Returning Grand Champion in AAU Karate”.
Kaden is an Isshinryu karate competitor from Florida who represents Ingram's Karate, and a grand champion of the Isshinryu Hall of Fame.
He started when he was five, after a karate school did a demonstration at his school and he decided that's what he wanted to do. When the episode was recorded, he was getting ready to defend his grand championship title in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Kaden balances a heavy weekly training schedule with school leadership and a dream of becoming an aerospace engineer. He talks about wanting to lose only to someone who is better, and how sticking with it turned early losses into wins.
“I started a long time ago when I was five years old”
From the episode
- The best way to lose is to someone better than you, because that's how you get better.
- Keep training and sticking with it, even when you don't medal.
- Doubting yourself is a normal feeling every athlete goes through.
- Discipline
- Isshinryu Karate
- Gym or dojo
- Ingram's Karate
- Location
- Florida
- Rank
- Isshinryu Hall of Fame grand champion
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