Frustrations hit the fan tonight.
It started off quite the opposite though. Tonight started off with an unexpectedly great phone call. Junior Mint called me, asking me if I wanted a fight. Of course I want a fight but, as it turned out, the fight he was calling me about wasn’t a fight I wanted.
I rushed over to the boxing club to discuss the details of the fight and that’s when I realized I didn’t want the fight. The opponent for the fight being offered was none other than the opponent I fought in my last fight. She hasn’t fought since she fought me but she got scheduled an eight-round main game in about three weeks time, November 26.
I’m not too sure what happened to her originally scheduled opponent but today they called Junior Mint and asked if I would take the fight. They upped the weight, saying they’d allow me to weigh-in at 50kgs. I’m around 53kgs right now so getting down to 50kgs is no problem; I could get there in a couple of days if I had to, that’s not the problem. I’m dying for a fight, I really need to get back in the ring for my own sake, for my own sanity, but giving me less than a month to prepare for a fight is both insulting and not enough time. I like my two month prep time – one month to go hardcore with the weight training and then one month to go crazy with the cardio/endurance training.
I’ve picked up a temporary one week job for next week, a job I just today agreed to, so having that to eat up my time and effort in addition to doing my boxercise classes and personal training in addition to training for a last minute fight is definitely a fight in of itself. Moreover, getting a proper sparring partner to come in from Seoul would mean only being able to get in one or two solid sparring sessions.
So on that note, I was quite the frustrated boxer at training tonight. I’d be awesome to step in the ring again with last January’s opponent for the fight I should have had instead of the craziness that went down last time. Everything that could have gone wrong last time did so it’d be nice to make right what went wrong but not with only a few weeks notice and me juggling so many things.
Oh the frustrations… !!!
Life would be so much easier for me if I was a male boxer here in Korea – more sparring partners, more sparring sessions, and a hell of a lot more fights available. It's days like today I look at Snickers and think he has no idea how much I envy him as a boxer -- a male boxer. He's living the dream I wish I was able to live with my boxing. He's got such incredible raw talent, so much potential, sparring partners at his beckoning call, and he's expected to fight.
Sometimes I think people just expect me to look pretty boxing. I hate that.
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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