Very exciting… kicked off the 63 Day Fat to Phat Challenge today with an amazingly positive and super sweet group of girls. At first I was somewhat discouraged in the numbers (specifically those who signed up by were a no-show) but then I asked myself, “Why should numbers matter?” I mean, would I really care more about the event if I packed the boxing club? And my answer is that although numbers can help to pump up the event and add to it’s energy, those who really want to participate came out. I much rather work with people who really want to be involved than a bunch that are only half into it.
My advanced boxercise girls really helped out a lot today – taking the before pictures of every participant, chatting up boxercise and giving a one round boxercise demo class. Much props to them. They really are a solid group of awesome girls.
I was pretty pumped about the event as it was but it only escaladed with who showed up. Cheonan has some really sweet girls and I was really happy to have a group of them join me for the event.
After the event one of my advanced boxercise gals came back to my apartment to watch the big Ji Hyun vs Jodie 10 rounder fight on TV. It was a pretty action-packed fight but I didn’t know who to cheer for. I fought at a tournament a while back and Jodie was on the fight card with me, so together we represented the foreign females here in Korea; that was awesome. However, I’ve also fought on the same fight card as Park Ji Hyun – an amazingly talented female Korean boxer who was sweet enough to introduce me to her mother and ask me to help her out at a previous fight with gearing up for her fight. Today’s fight marked her ninth time defending her IFBA title so it was quite the anticipated fight. Both girls were head-to-head with the points and it was definitely a fight that made us female boxers proud. Judges who scored the fight named Ji Hyun the winner so it was a sweet win for Korea.
Later on in the day I watched the UFC fights on TV. I’m not a fan of Mir but I like his opponent – Nogueira, the brother of a favored fighter of mine. The fight ended with Nogueira breaking his arm so that was rather disturbing to watch. Actually, I’m not too sure if it was an actual break or if it just popped out of the joint (dislocated), none the less, it was pretty rough watching it happen.
So today I kicked off the Fat to Phat Challenge, watched the highly anticipated Ji Hyun fight, watched a rough UFC fight and then I also had a packed boxercise beginner class and a wickedly-intense advanced boxercise class.
It certainly was a bloody, action-packed, sweet-induced Sunday... good stuff.
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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