Inimidation to me is a female who, in my eyes, has it all and that someone is my friend Hee Jung. She is the Korean version and better version of the person I inspire to be.
Introducing my friend Hee Jung...
She's a long-reining female Korean boxing champion and both she and I share similar stories. In many ways she is the Korean version of me -- we are international sisters -- but I vouch that she is the better sister of us. I'm still busting my butt to catch up with her. And while the rest of Korea considers me an "old" boxer in comparison to all the university-aged Korean fighters here, she is older than me and I love that. I absolutely love the fact that she too doesn't fit the mold of what it means to be a female boxer here in Korea -- she's a mother-of-two, 36 year old entrepenuer. I really respect her more because of it too. We're both "old boxers" but we're proudly rocking our age, and she's proudly rocking a 6 pack set of abs! As for other similarities, both our husbands starting boxing while behind bars, both our husbands are Korean champs and we both have our own boxing club. Her boxing club actually is a business associate/brother club to ours because some of our legal business papers were cosigned by them.
As for differences between her and I, besides her being Korean that is, is she has 2 two-legged babies whereas I have the 3 four-leggied babies. I live here in Cheonan but she lives down south, down in Busan where every time I visit I wish I lived too if just for the powerful ocean sounds and beachside cafes. The biggest difference, however, is that she's a champion boxer and I am not. She is a champion in every sense of the word. She eats, sleeps and breaths boxing and she's been so encouraging to me with regards to my training. And I love running into her at live fights because with her living a 5-6 hour drive away it's not easy to see her.
I trained late tonight after one epic fail to train late in the evening resulted in me getting upset with Snickers. However it was a mixture of one encouraging text message from Hee Jung and one heart-pumping old school song that really picked my spirits up tonight and got me training. I started training tonight around 12:30am and ended about an hour later. In that hour I had pretty much woken up all the neighbors in the area with my continuous round bell dinging and hollering over my loud music. I also got in a solid 10 two-minute rounds on the sandbag and no sooner had I finished but then I got a message from my friend. "Go to bed" she texted me, "but I look forward to your comeback".
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