As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).

After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.

Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.

Monday, December 15, 2008

The boxing club in Ssangyong-Dong, Cheonan.

... and their club mascot... weighing in at 2kgs, if that... hehehe.


... and the sparring match that settled a very interesting question, who's better, UP Boxing or Ssangyong-Dong.
Christmas came early for my coach's opponent, Mr. Blue Head, who got way too many upper cuts, jabs, hooks, and brutal body shots, and who'll probably be waking up tomorrow as a Mr. Blue Body/ Brown Head... yikes!!!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think your coach's boxing nickname is "Muscles". If you don't know, ask him.

Seriously, no joke.

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hi Bad Lieutenant,
Hehehe... it should be his nickname but it isn't. His nickname is "Sweet Potato" because of his ongoing obsession with eating them... hehehe.

Anonymous said...

Ok, but did you ask him?

I thought your coach was Kim Yun-jib.

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=129885&cat=boxer

It says his alias is "Muscles".

Maybe I'm wrong, though.

권투선수 에이미 [Amy] said...

Hi Bad Lieutenant,
I didn't remember to ask my coach and today at training I was managing the club so he wasn't there to ask. But that's not how you spell his name. It's YOON not YUN. I looked up YOON and there was nothing for him but YUN and YOON are totally two different sounding names. Hmmm....

Anonymous said...

"...but YUN and YOON are totally two different sounding names. Hmmm"

Not necessarily (sp?).

Koreans spell their names any way they damn-well please.

Former president Kim Dae Jung ("joong").

Former president Roh ("no") Mu-hyun.

Yun can be pronounced "yoon" or "yuhn".

Anyway, good luck to "Muscles".

Anonymous said...

Bad Lieutenant is right. Most Koreans don't know how to Romanize their own names, place names or other Korean nouns accurately, and often are confused.

Sometimes they write Pusan, other times Busan; Chaebol or jaebol; Chosun or Josun etc.