With Junior Mint out of the club and out in Seoul with the Heavy Hitter for game weigh-in, Snickers and I were asked to manage the boxing club for the whole day.
Us managing the club means me pumping up the tunes with lots of base-pounding beats, posing random challenges for those at the club, and giving lots of feedback and pointers to those training. It also means holding spontanious sparring tournaments among the middle school and high school kiddies. You just got to love the students that come out and train at UP, the boys that is. While the Korean girls are all about acting cute and socializing -- both of which drive me bonkers -- the boys, on the other hand, are all about trying out new things and putting forth a lot of energy and effort.
We held some sparring sessions but the best for a silly but simple contest we held among the boys. The deal was they had to hang off a metal bar for two minutes. Sounds simple, sure, but trust me when I say it is not easy. It's not easy at all. Not only do you have to really test out your muscular strength of holding up your body weight with only two hands but you've got the blood rushing down from your arms and blisters on your hand forming as the seconds go by. Then there's the fact that regardless of whether you fail or not when you let go it takes a couple of good solid minutes before you can fully spread wide your fingers and open your hand. It's quite painful, very painful actually, but the boys had a lot of fun really testing their potential, and with every new attempt each participant was convinced they'd be the one to be able to do it. Only Snickers was able to do it.
I think I'll wait till tomorrow, when I'm at the club training alone, to test it out... hahaha.
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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