1. Your Intro • Name: Kealahna Palacios • Where you’re from: Guam: Born & Raised Residing in Florida, moving back to Washington State! • Training background: Beginner(ish) 2. Your Goals • What’s your biggest striking goal right now? To build strong, reliable striking skills and become confident in real-life situations. • What do you want to achieve inside this community? I want to learn proper technique, improve consistency, and train with like-minded people who push me to get better. • Are you training for competition, self-defense, fitness, or skill development? I am training for skill development and self-defense, I want to be technically sound while also being able to protect myself if needed. 3. Bonus Question (Optional but recommended) • Fun fact about you: I’ve been a professional dog trainer since 2019 and own a mobile dog training business called Tribal K9, where I focus on obedience and behavior work. -Puyallup, WA based

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Name: Aadhar Malhotra • Where you’re from: India • Training background: trained in Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, Filipino Kali, and a few other arts. Former military and law enforcement instructor. • What’s your biggest goal right now? Aside from growing my business as a self protection as nd martial arts teacher, I want to step into the ring and compete (at least once) to test myself at 37. Bonus Question • My main focus now is coaching, learning more about the intersection of traditional martial arts, combat sports, and self defence Combatives, and helping people develop themselves holistically as martial artists and individuals.

1. • Name: Nick Kempton • Where you’re from: Newhampshire • Training background (beginner, intermediate, advanced, fighter, etc.): Intermediate 2. Your Goals • What’s your biggest striking goal right now? -im 29, and gave up on combat sports after a series of events that took place before my first boxing competion, so my goal is to get back in the ring and prove i still belong here • What do you want to achieve inside this community? -I want to achieve growth, and also find more of my people, make more connections • Are you training for competition, self-defense, fitness, or skill development? -I am training for all of the above reason 3. Bonus Question (Optional but recommended) • Fun fact about you: I am a leathersmith and a bladesmith, as well as own my own side business in thise fields, full time I am a heavy equipment service technician • Anything else you want us to know: I am going on 5 years clean and sober this year. I went from homeless at 16 to married, a business owner, and the father of a daughter my wife and I were told wasnt possible. Im a veey grateful and bless man.

Thank you for having me, im excited to learn as much as possible. You can never learn to much when it comes to combat sports.