Our latest installment of profiles with our 2017 Senior National Team members features male lightweight Jaysen Ishida of Waikele, Hawaii.
1. What is your favorite holiday?
Jaysen: Thanksgiving.
2. Top songs on your phone or music service?
Jaysen: Always on shuffle.
3. If not taekwondo, what sport would you be playing?
Jaysen: Probably be surfing or Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
4. Favorite pro sports team in the U.S.?
Jaysen: I don't have a favorite.
5. If you had access to a time machine, where and when would you go?
Jaysen: Definitey travel to the future and visit myself.
6. Favorite venue and city to compete at internationally?
Jaysen: Manchester, UK.
7. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Jaysen: Already living there! In Hawaii.
8. What is the first thing you notice about someone when you first meet?
Jaysen: Their shoes.
9. Best place you have competed at in the States?
Jaysen: San Diego, California.
10. Age you became a taekwondo fan?
Jaysen: Age 15? I remember watching matches from the 2007 World Championships on YouTube or something and started to really become a fan.
11. What is the one luxury item that you could not do without?
Jaysen: iPhone.
12. Sport you're best at other than taekwondo?
Jaysen: Air hockey.
13. If you could trade lives with anyone for one day, who would that be?
Jaysen: Anthony Bourdain
14. Instagram or Snapchat?
Jaysen: Instagram.
15. What do you like to do in your spare time?
Jaysen: Netflix and NBA2k17. Jensen Ishida and my teammates are still trying to beat me. #undefeated.
16. Top two things still on your bucket list?
Jaysen: Learn how to speak Korean fluently, and go skydiving.
17. Early bird or night owl?
Jaysen: Depends.
18. What is your favorite television program?
Jaysen: "The Office".
19. What luxury item do you wish you could invent?
Jaysen: A medical device used to save lives or something.
20. What is your favorite season -- winter, spring, summer or fall?
Jaysen: Spring.