Growing up in Brooklyn, Cade trained in wrestling and Sambo before finding Jiu-Jitsu at Renzo Gracie Academy working with Gregor Gracie and John Danaher. He moved to Cleveland for undergraduate studies and wrestled for a season of D3 before training full-time under Emil Fisher at Strong Style MMA. He moved to Colorado for work and is currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at CU Boulder. His areas of expertise are combining wrestling & leg locks and he predominantly plays no gi.