At the age of three, knew exactly what she wanted to be: “the female karate kid.”
Unsurprisingly, that aspiration garnered various reactions, as the landscape of martial arts more than twenty years ago wasn’t exactly the most welcoming place for a woman.
But the opinion that mattered most to Cheyanne was her father’s, and he signed her up for private karate lessons the following day, as she was too young to participate in a standard class.
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“He was the only person who believed in me in the sport.