Kaʻi joined UFC gym in December of 2021. It was closer to home and a heck of a lot better than the rundown 24-hour fitness she had been previously going to. She figured maybe the younger crowd would help motivate her to be a little more consistent to work out. Enter Coach Ethan: reserved, very serious-looking, built with gorilla arms and a platinum blonde man bun. She would see him bouncing around here and there, yelling “LETS GOOO” from the sidelines of her D.U.T. class she was absolutely dying in, but neither of them really talked or were in the gym at the same time. Then in January of 2023, as if the universe had aligned it, Coach Ethan was now teaching D.U.T. and TRX classes at 8:00am every day of the week. That was about the time Kaʻi had been going to the gym. She ended up being one of three people to sign up and attend his first class… that was until people began to find out about how awesome he was and there were never less than fifteen people after that. A few classes, some “form correcting”, and a brave Instagram follow later, they were inseparable.