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.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Packing in a Busy Monday... Monday, May 12

OK, so my feet are still very much in pain today thanks to a popped blood blister on one and a pooped blister on the other -- not the "welcome to Monday" homepage entry sentence I should have wrote but whatever.  However, it sure beats the ankle-deep spontaneous flood water my feet dealt with on this day last year.

Welcome to Monday.

Monday's are always super busy at Hulk's and today was surely no exception.  We completely maxed out today's attendance sheet in our daily attendance book -- a first ever -- so I was super stoked about that.  Today marked our first year since our soft opening of Hulk's, not to be mistook for our official opening, so it was exciting to note our attendance list back in the beginning of Hulk's and now.  Up until about a month plus some ago, we were averaging about 30 people a day training.  Now our daily attendance is in the 40's everyday with today it being 47 members we train.  And though our brother club here in Cheonan has about 60 members coming out to daily training despite it being about 1/4th our club's size, we feel quite successful because that club is about 8years old and we're not even one.  

We've had the pleasure of training roughly 349 people in the 11 months of official business and have retained a healthy number of 95 active Hulkies.  My original first year goal was to have 70 members but for Snickers it was 120.  We're happily in the middle and I'm quite proud of that because Adidas had quoted aiming for about 400-500.  I still maintain my thinking that if we ever get to such a high number of members that we'll put a cap on it.  Either pose some kind of waiting list or make another club.  Trying to remember and keep track of 95 members is enough work for me because Snickers is always leaning on me to remember people's names and whatnot.  I seriously start and end my shift everyday with going through the member's profile book and reading aloud their names in hopes of trying to remember an extra name or two.  

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