I went cruising for chics on Saturday… and then again today. Strange but true.
I went looking for females – foreign females -- as an attempt to promote Flipside Fitness, spread word about it and get more females aware and interested in my boxercise classes.
My boxercise classes aren’t solely for the females but it’s been only females who have been signing up for my classes, and that’s cool with me because it’s very inspiring to me to train with such a fierce group of females. For the most part, I think they’d prefer me to keep it a girls-only class too, for the sake of feeling more comfortable and not having to deal with any drama or whatnot that too often gets connected with both-sex groups. Korean women are more than welcome to join the group but I find that most Korean women I have approached about it are nervous about joining. They think they have to understand perfect English and the name boxercise gives them the misconception that they’ll be sparring.
For now, my main cliental pool is the foreign female crowd.
Saturday I headed out downtown Cheonan with one of the gals whom I train. We seriously roamed the streets, jetting in and out of bars and coffee shops in search of women. But on a Saturday night when you’d expect women to be dressed to impressed and out socializing around town, we found no female downtown. What ended up happening was we took a cab across town to a bar I had heard was having a Halloween party.
“What’s your costume… the hot lady?!” Someone yelled out to us when we walked in.
I’m not a very good customer for a bar, I must admit. I don’t eat bar food, I don’t drink… I don’t even drink juice… so unless they have bottled water I probably won’t spend anything. Ended up not spending anything either tonight, thanks to a guy who bought both of us bottled water. Chatted it up with what few ladies were at the bar and then Snickers dropped by to pick us up.
As for today's hunt for females in downtown Cheonan, I walked around the hub of downtown, sticking my business cards into the windows of parked cars and handing them out to random people, but I didn't see one foreign female downtown.
Where are all the foreign ladies in Cheonan?!
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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