After pondering over our membership list, I wrote down "K 5, NK 17" and Snickers asked me "Is that Korean vrs. North Koreans?!" Very funny; I should have upper cut him in the bum for that. No, it stands for Koreans vrs. non-Koreans, as in the number of Korean members vrs. the number of non-Koreans we have at Hulk's here. Note, I really don't like to use the word "foreigner", actually I hate that f-word!!!
Koreans: 10 males and 5 females = 15
Non-Koreans: 4 males and 13 females = 17
The non-Koreans outnumber the Koreans, the females outnumber the males and the non-Korean female is the biggest percentage of our crew... very cool!!! With the exception of a few members, many of our members are connected to each other and by that I am referring to the fact that they initially joined Hulk's and then brought another person to join, like a friend or family member. Take for example my friend King Kong. He called us up tonight, a bit after 9pm, and asked us if we could train him tonight. We actually close at 8pm on Sundays but stayed until almost 9pm, then we headed out for dinner. King Kong is dead set on becoming the poster child for fitness, insisting on training hard, so we came in to push him with it. It's now 11pm, he's still here training but he came with two other guys. There's been no promise made whether or not these two guys will sign up and become members but there's a definite promise that we almost killed one of them with training -- another puker?!
1 week of soft-opening and we're at 31 members!
We've only been open one week -- week one of our two week soft-opening too -- and the turn out for our club has been awesome. We've done absolutely no advertising and are holding off until we kick off the grand opening. Hulk's is 4 away from the half way mark to my goal of 70 members. Snickers wants something like 120 members and I want to set a definite cap of the number that can join. Packing the place would mean packing our pockets with cash but that's not why we got into this and it's not the vibe we're going for here. We want "familyship", it's friendship but with a closeness of family. To grow large in membership numbers would just kill the familyship we've already got in motion and everyday are working on. Today I had a member come train that I actually hadn't met before. He had signed up while I was doing boxercise class the other day so today I trained with him. We did weight training today and it gave us the chance to get to know each other and get comfortable. All our members may not know each other, after all they all come at different times, but we want to know them and we want them to know us. This isn't just a place to workout, it's a part of a community.
We've got "familyship".
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