Today was quite exciting actually.
The hype and great energy that came with the arrival of yesterday’s Adidas sponsorship shipment carried well into today and it got a second wind when I presented the new equipment to my boxercise class girls. The girls were thrilled when I presented them with their new Adidas gloves – a first pair of boxing gloves to them all. Their eyes lit up, their mouths dropped and they eagerly jammed their hands into the gloves. It was quite exciting for me to watch and I wondered if I was like that the first time I got my first gloves. I think I was. Actually, I still have my first pair of boxing gloves and I brought them to Korea with me. They sit on the self in my boxing club, willingly able to be worn by anyone and everyone who wants to try them on for a few rounds.
I felt really happy for the girls, and I felt quite proud. It’s been a very rewarding experience for me, teaching my boxercise class. It’s hard to really explain it but in doing my boxercise class, seeing the excitement with learning the combos, seeing just how hard the girls try and whatnot, I’ve created this little world in which it feels so great to be a strong woman and so great to share it with other like-minded women.
So, ya… that was how my morning went and it was pretty cool. I teach two boxercise classes on Sunday, 10am and 2pm, so it made for a tiresome day but I loved it.
One of my boxercise clients treated me to some Western goodies -- cottage cheese, Splenda, and some strange little shelled edamame beans. I’ve never had these beans before but one of my boxercise gals picked them up for me at an American army base and praised them for their high protein content… good stuff! So being treated to some Western goodies was awesome. I love, love, LOVE cottage cheese but this just might be the only cottage cheese I see this year… boo to that.
After my second boxercise class, Snickers and I headed over to Emart to do some grocery shopping and that’s when I stumbled across another Western goodie today – chocolate Advent calendars! Back in the day my mom used to do an Advent calendar for my brothers and I. She’d load it up with little gifts but it’d be so weighed down with them that she’d have to lay it on the dinning room table…. ahhhh, those were the days!
Though this particular Advent calendar I spotted in the store today failed miserably in comparison to my mom’s – it being a chocolate one made out of cheap cardboard and having a mass produced picture on it – I ended up buying one. Actually, I bought four. One for Snickers, another one for me, one for a boxercise gal I’m personal training, and one just in case I want to give one to another friend. I know I shouldn’t be supporting eating chocolate and I’m sure my client will think the same, but like I always say, “Everything in moderation”. After all, even an apple, if you eat so many of them or eat them too late in the evening is not good for you.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away but a chocolate a day keeps the crazies away.
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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