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He gets up at 5 in the morning to train for an hour in the gym he set up at home. Afterwards, she takes a bath, has breakfast and quickly goes to Santa Teresita school, where she is in 5th grade. In the afternoon she works in her father’s carpentry shop and then, at night, goes back to training.
Candela Martínez knows very well that talent alone is not enough to achieve her goals. Discipline and effort are non-negotiable pillars in her daily life.
The young judoka from Parana is a multiple Provincial and National champion and a medalist on different occasions in the South Americans.
He started Judo at 6 years old and today at 17 he has medals of all types, sizes and colors. Among other awards, he won more than 16 National tournaments, he has 2 gold medals, 1 bronze and 1 silver in different South American tournaments.
She is currently a member of the Argentine National Team in the KDT category and her coach is Paula Pareto, no more, no less.
Candela started this activity thanks to her father Cristian, a Black belt in Jiu Jitsu and Judo. She represents the Fishermen club and the Students club. In silence, with a lot of training and sacrifice, she now longs to participate in a Pan American Games and dreams of qualifying for the Olympic Games.
“I practice every day, from Monday to Saturday in double shifts. In fact, I divide my time between my training, my competitions, school and also going out with my friends. I still know that if I have to focus on a tournament I do it because that is the most important thing. When a date for a competition is confirmed, that previous month I am fully dedicated to my participation,” she says, showing from the start that she does not deny her hectic life, but rather adapts.
– What does Judo mean in your life?
-I’m thinking about judo all day. I think about how to improve, how to be well prepared and what I need to do to continue progressing. I think about the strategies I can do, about the mistakes I need to improve. I have a little notebook where after each competition I write down all the mistakes I made to train and polish them, or what I am going to train in the next classes.
-You get up early to be able to train, you go to school, you work with your dad and at night you go back to training. That is as long as you do not have competitions or concentrations with the national team. How you do?
-Judo helped me become a much more organized person. Sometimes I have to travel to participate in the national team’s training camps and I have to copy what my teammates taught in class. I always make time to plan my days around training. Judo taught me that organization is essential to save time and thus stay up to date with my obligations.
(More information in the graphic edition of ANALISIS magazine, edition 1151, dated June 6, 2024)
2024-06-06 04:40:51
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