Caught a live men’s professional volleyball game – KAL vs. Hyundai (the Cheonan Sky Walkers). We showed up almost an hour early to the game, thinking that it’d be plenty of time to get a sweet parking spot and tickets, but low and behold the stadium was already buzzing with tons of people! I’m guessing that there were about 2000 people in attendance.
I knew Cheonan had it’s own men’s volleyball team and I had heard that they were quite good but I definitely didn’t think it’d be such a highly attended event. It was as if nothing but this was going on tonight in Cheonan, proof being in the fifteen minute wait just to drive out of the parking lot afterwards.
This was the first time either Snickers or I had attended a live volleyball game in Korea so we were pretty excited. We loaded up my purse with snackies – dried squid, popcorn, a bag of nuts and beef jerky, and a bottle water for me, juice for Snickers.
We ended up buying random tickets and found out a bit too late that we had purchased tickets to sit in Cheonan’s opponent’s cheering section… oops! So we cheered for the opposition but crossed our fingers for Cheonan. Next time we go though, we’ll definitely have to sit in Cheonan’s cheering section. They had the Cheonan mascot pumping up the crowd, cheerleaders throwing out random prizes and they had a cheering leader that yelled, screamed, danced and keep that section of the stadium on their toes and cheering on Cheonan.
Despite not making the wisest choice in tickets, we had a wicked time. We each picked a specific player to cheer on, I cheered for two players actually, one on each team. The Cheonan player I cheered for tried to throw me a give-away volleyball but his throw was off. And as for the other team’s member I cheered for, we exchanged several comments here and there throughout the game whenever he was on the sidelines.
Cheonan ended up losing the game but it was an action-packed game that was definitely worth the watch. Definitely going to come out to more of these live games!!!
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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