As a person, improving is something that I strive for every single day. The saying, "if your'e too comfortable, your'e not growing. Oftentimes I always reflect, and ask myself if I'm comfortable. If I'm not then I keep being comfortable, because as a person, I know I am growing slowly. My best skill is weightlifting, and baseball. I love being an athlete, and pushing my body to new heights. Every single day I'm in the weight room, and the baseball diamond striving to become better. One day I aspire to become a division1 athlete after my two years of Juco are up. Everyday I am improving myself to do my workout plan, and execute them everyday. While every week passes, I push myself to do a little more weight than I did the week before. Encountering failure is very common, but I never let that get to my head. I keep going, and I get it done because I want to become a better version of myself. This correlates to real life because I must improve all aspects of my life. I cannot be a person who stays stagnant. I want to be a person who keeps moving up and down like a graph.

My name is Aaron Nobu who started baseball at the age of 4. It was the summer of 2008, and my parents signed me up for a local shetland league. Neither of us knew that this game would change my life forever. The first team that I played for that first season was the Yankees. I made so many lifelong friends that I still have till this day. There are so many memories from game days to just practice. In addition, staying late at the park, and playing with my teammates. I got to learn how to throw, hit, run, and have fun. A memory that I still remember till this day was, when I first ran the bases, I ran to second first, and everyone was laughing at me. After my first season I remembered in kindergarten my teachers asked what I wanted to be. I told them I wanted to be a professional baseball player. Every single year I matured and played up with the older boys. I got to learn quickly, and watch how the older boys played. In high school, I was very serious about playing and furthering my academic and baseball career. I needed to have good grades in the classroom. I learned that my work ethic needed to change. Which meant hitting the weights, and putting in the extra work to rise above the rest. . Looking back at my first season of baseball, the first thing that I still value today is to just have fun when you play. The game is hard as it is. I always have to remind myself to play loose, have fun with your teammates, and good things will come your way. The coach who had the biggest impact on me when I was little was Coach Coop. I was very fortunate to have parents that took me out to the cage, and spent all that money for me to have quality training by Hawaii's best hitting coach. He taught more of the mental side, and how to hit the baseball to all fields. As a hitter at a young age, I was able to hit the ball to all parts of the field. He gave me a “bulldog mentality” at the plate which gives me so much confidence at the plate. I look back and remember the emotion I felt because of his words. Till this day, I have that same mentality at the plate no matter if it's a D1 pitcher or anyone else. He was the first coach to teach me how to dig deep, and compete my absolute tail off. Coach Coop really invested in me to raise me to become a better hitter. He would let me stay for an extra half hour to an hour to help get me right before games on weekends. Till this day I'm very fortunate to have him as my coach. Without him I wouldn't have the confidence to hit at the plate. There would be no high level confidence, and knowledge without Coach Coop. In conclusion, it all started off with my parents signing me up for a summer baseball season. After that I would train with many coaches, evolve physically and mentally. Go on travel ball trips to Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. I would not trade that for anything. The memories I made from my first season to now are truly unforgettable. I cannot thank my family and coaches for shaping me to be the person I am today. Without my family's support I wouldn't be here today.