MY FIGHT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11th.
I got word of this today when I walked into training. It's great in that I get to train more for this fight but it's bad in that, well, I get to train more for this fight. I've been seriously training like a machine and eating like a beast. Junior Mint has me sparring practically every time I step into the boxing club for training and he quizzes me everyday about what I've eaten, what time I've gone to sleep and how my condition is. I'm rather exhausted -- more so physically than mentally -- but with my fight being postponed I'm getting a bit mentally exhausted. I've totally got my "game head" on but dragging this fight out by postponing it is brutal. My only fear now is that with this extra time I might get somewhat distracted or become a bit relaxed with my thinking.
On a different note, my 63 Day Fat to Phat competition I'm hosting via Flipside Fitness ends on February 12th -- the day after my fight -- so I'm assuming I'll be looking rather "interesting" for that day. I'll be fresh with bruises and stiff with snoreness.
Hell Boy was at training today. I've run into him a couple of times at training this week. Today he stood around watching me train and then approached me about wanting to spar with me. I don't know but a full grown man in his 40's wanting to beat upon a young lady like me just doesn't seem normal. I mean, if he wins our sparring session he just beat a lady less than half his size and about 10 plus some years his junior. But if he loses, talk about a blow to his ego, getting beat by a chic! Anyways, I think it's rather silly and don't really care to have a recap of the last sparring session we had some years ago when he almost broke my nose and yelled at me, telling me I should "just take it". Ya, cause I can really afford to break my nose just weeks before a fight... not so smart!
No one in Snickers' family knows that I have a fight and it's been surprisingly easy to keep it a secret for the fact that none of them ask me about my boxing, or Flipside Fitness for that matter. It's rather ironic too in that Snickers' used to be the "dark horse" of the family, doing a job that none of them gave much respect or attention to (beyond K-Gere that is) and going off to marry me, a foreign gal. Now the tables have turned and it's now me who is the dark horse. For the most part, whenever I see my in-laws, the only thing they really talk to me about is my father and how he's doing with the loss of my mother. I'm curious how they think I make money or what I do with my time everyday. I doubt they even think about it though, to tell you the truth.
Snickers' upcoming fight at the end of February is talked about often these days with his friends and family and I just sit and smile through their chatting, dying to blurt out that I too have a fight. I figure I'll have the fight and then show up the next day with bruises and perhaps a black eye; give them something to talk about.
Even if they knew I had a fight they'd never show up. They've never shown up for any of my previous fights so why would they now?! My friend Satoshi from Japan is flying in to come watch my fight and my friend Nick from Canada will catching Snickers' fight. He's in Thailand right now, doing a tour of Asia so he's timed it perfectly that he'll be in Korea to see Snickers' fight.
2 comments:
It really sucks that your in-laws are not more supportive of you and your boxing. :( I told my boyfriend about it (and how they told you that you should just be a house-wife/mom and stop boxing), and he was really shocked. Even he called them crazy! lol. Keep up the hard work with the training! Where are the fights going to be?
Hi Jacky,
Ya, it does suck. I'm so tempted to blurt it out that I have a fight but I've decided to hold off and just not tell them. There's really no point involving them in a conversation they clearly don't care about.
My father is also not a big fan of my boxing but he supports me. Adidas supports me so that's pretty cool to have such a unique supporter. Of course Snickers supports me too but he's not a big fan of watching my fights. He always looks somewhat heartbroken in between rounds. He of all people know you don't feel a thing during the fight though -- it's AFTER the fight you do.
Anyways, thank you kindly for the support. I'm definitely training hard but admit that this weekend I've had a little bit of a break, with it being the Lunar New Year. As for where the fight is going to be, it was scheduled to be in Daegu but with the change of date I'm not too sure if it'll also have a change of location. Usually locations need to be booked awhile in advance so it might be changed.
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