Sucking up my pride, lowering my hat and heading out to yet another fight. This time it's Black Skinny and Snickers who have fights. Black Skinny fights at 4:30pm and Snickers fights at 7pm. Check out MBC EPSN Sports for the fights.
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.
5 comments:
Hey Champ,you HAVE to be pride ,to be a boxer...that pic schow really what you are doing,or what boxing is !..winning is STANDING in the ring and have the guts to do that....damn,i can feel,how you are hurt,physical ,and emotional!...send you me Angel !
Hey Amy,
I agree with everything that vbuuren wrote. Not many especially women have the guts to go into the ring in front of a crowd to compete. There will be other times for you to do better and whatever you do, do not give up and I know you won't. Keep training hard and pursuing your sport that you love. You are #1 for sure. :)
Beth
I'll keep it short and simple.
Seeing you harmed like this is not pleasant. But I know that deep down, in what makes you whole and alive, there is still that passion and this fire inside you. Nothing can strip you away from what you are.
Keep going girl. Nurse your wounds so you can come back stronger!
Pat
Boxing isn't about winning; it's about falling, hurt and ashamed, but finding that pride that brings you to your feet anyway.
Props on having the courage to get in the ring in the first place. And even more props on getting dropped in the first but allowing that pride to let you fight on regardless.
And I'm not sure if you're down with professional men's boxing or not, but you should check out Tomasz Adamek, a fellow pollack who fights with reckless abandon: takes two shots to land the one that counts :)
Hi Vbuuren,
Thanks champ for always being so encouraging. I am sorry for taking so long to respond to your comments but I've been feeling strange lately. I am still nursing my bruised pride. I know it takes a lot to step in the ring but it feels like stepping in the ring was the easy part, now it's picking myself up that seems to be so damn hard!!!
Yo Beth,
Thanks girl;) I can use any and ALL the motivation you got right now. Today marks the one week point and so I think I'm doing much better but it still hurts.. hurts as in mentally.
Hi Pat,
Thank you... I appreciate your kind words as it's obvious I am kind of lacking in the department where I use to seem to clear on = motivaton.
Hey T-Funk,
Yes, I know but falling hurt and ashamed is really, really hard to deal with, let alone accept but I'm working on it. I'm trying to sport my bruises with pride, "badges of honor" as my friend calls them, but I've been struggling. I think the fact that my boyfriend is so consistantly successful with his boxing career definitely plays a factor here. I wish him nothing but the best but it's hard when I myself fall so short of being the best I can be in the very sport I too love.
Thanks... I'll have to check out that fellow Pollack, for sure.
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