1. Woke up to a message from the Adidas rep telling me that Adidas boxing will be launching in Korea in January and so he’s told his partner to message me…. Wicked!!!
2. Kitty Cat was M.I.A. for weight training this morning and so I geared up and kicked my own butt, training back and chest.
3. Work was work but work is always great on Thursdays! My Thursday classes are awesome, actually, all but two of my weekly classes are awesome. One class is hair-pulling-terrible and the other is definitely questionable. But my Thursday classes… ahhhh, my Thursday classes, too cool to describe.
4. Snickers has been trying to encourage me to drastically drop my weight down to 47kgs as fast as I can by following his very restricted, highly stressful and seriously limited diet. I tried it for two days and then started having cravings like a pregnant woman on the verge of popping out a porker at any minute. I agreed to follow his diet for one more day but tomorrow I definitely plan on going back to my game diet schedule of mixing up low carb days with no carb days and high carb days.
5. $#it hit the fan majorly at boxing tonight after Junior Mint pushed me to my patience limit in the ring and gave me one too many shots to the head with his hand pad. He was getting on my case majorly tonight about my upcoming opponent being a south paw (left handed fighter).
6. I know it’s going to be a hard fight but I’m not so much interested in a victory as I am the total package, the notion of taking my boxing to this higher level and fighting in another country. Anyways, he got frustrated and when he continually asked other boxers in the club if they spoke English, I blurted out, “I speak Korean. I’ve been coming here for almost two years and have always spoken Korean to me. Just speak Korean!” I wasn’t rude in my tone or whatnot but when he mumbled something under his breath I gave him a bit of a dirty look.
7. Not too sure how it escalated to the extent that it did but it ended with me saying that I missed Canada and him yelling at me, “If you miss Canada, then go there!”
8. With my blood quickly reaching its’ boiling point and me being all flustered and ticked off, I stepped into the ring to do match-boxing with the Korean Bulldog. Junior Mint was doing pad work with someone else in the ring and neither of us were watching the other so when I stepped back and accidentally stepped on his foot, he yelled out. Crash I went and bang went my head on one of the ring corner metal poles. Ya, that is definitely going to leave a good week-long bump on my head!!!
9. It had been a rough night at boxing and so after I picked myself off the ring floor, I ripped off my gear and stomped out of the club. Junior Mint called out to me, asked me where I was going and so I peeked my head in. Everyone stood there watching and so I blurted out, “I’m going to Canada.”
10. God bless Snickers. My continual sanity saver and rescuer who always throws out extra kisses to save me when I feel like I’m drowning!!!
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Does counting to ten really work for you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Patience is also a form of action.
-- Auguste Rodin
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.
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