01
Sports
the court & beyond
Basketball since 3rd grade — varsity starter, 2026 NCS Champion (a first in school and district history). Off the court: skiing, swimming, running, hiking, ping pong.
— team dinners > drills
06 — The Person
Hello,
I'm Jadon.
The rest of the site is the résumé. This page is the person — the one who plays ball, cooks feasts for friends, flies cameras, writes it all down, and runs up a mountain every birthday.
“documenting the grind is the job — this is everything off the clock”
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Jadon · Fremont, CA
est. 2009
What I'm about
six things that never made the transcript
02
Cooking
jl kitchens
Biweekly cooking with Samay — macarons perfected, Beef Ragu on rotation, a Hojicha Basque cheesecake still in progress. Full feasts for friends at Thanksgiving, New Year's, and Lunar New Year.
— 1,657 food photos & counting
03
Aerial Photography
faa part 107
An FAA-approved drone pilot flying the places he could only see when he dreamed of flying — DJI Mini 2 SE, then the Avata 2 FPV, bought with saved and earned money.
— the sky was the first gallery
04
Videography
since the iphone 6
Filming since he was a kid on his mom's iPhone 6. Now it's an Osmo Pocket 3, a city podcast in the edit bay, and videos that grew a mayor's reach from 1k to 10k.
— shoot, cut, post, repeat
05
Journaling
since 8th grade
A journal kept since the start of 8th grade, at least once a month — first just summarizing events, then releasing the truth and going deeper. Every Mission Peak climb ends up in it.
— the rawest data on this site
06
Traveling
passport pages
Six weeks in Xi'an with grandparents. Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka. Taipei. And a Vancouver spring break chosen over AP grinding — he came back energized.
— street food is research
The tradition
Mission Peak,
every birthday.
a solo run to the summit every January 2nd since turning twelve — then it all goes in the journal
Climb № 5 · age 16
46:46
bottom → summit · min'sec
PR — up in time to watch the sunrise← the PR!
Higher on the ridge = faster ascent · tap a year
From the summit
one frame per year
Six climbs and counting — the 2027 frame gets taken the morning he turns eighteen.
Camera roll
Eyes in the sky.
Filming since he was a kid on his mom's iPhone 6 — now an FAA-approved pilot flying the areas he could only see when he dreamed to fly, and an editor who cuts a city podcast and campaign films after school.
every print here was shot from a drone he saved up for
Gear progression · FAA Part 107
1
iPhone 6
where it started — his mom's phone
2
DJI Mini 2 SE
first drone — exploring the skies
3
DJI Avata 2
FPV — bought with saved + earned money
4
Osmo Pocket 3
the everyday cinema rig
JL Kitchens
Feast nights.
Biweekly cooking with Samay — an outlet from rigorous courses, immersed in sound, taste, and smell. Designed dinner menus for Thanksgiving, New Year's, and Lunar New Year.
- macarons — perfected ✓
- beef ragu — on rotation ✓
- hojicha basque cheesecake — soon
In the kitchen
Thanksgiving
Feast night
New Year's
Plating up
Lunar New Year
Filmed at the actual feast nights — 1,657 food photos in the camera roll.
Passport
Stamps so far.
14 stops and counting — hover a pin
photo coming soon
Fremont, CA
Home base
Where every trip starts and ends.
journaling
On the shelf
the all-time top 3 — pick one up
1
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
no. 1
2
Sunrise on the Reaping
Suzanne Collins
no. 2
3
The Circle & The Every
Dave Eggers
no. 3 — a double
@li_locked.in is the camera — this was the person
It all points one direction —
the pursuit of happiness.
see you on the mountain, January 2nd