...and on the seventh day God said "Let there be heat" and there was heat.
OK, so maybe God didn't say it, the Korean Hulk did, but God shouldn't have forgotten us little people who don't care for the winter and live in unheated buildings.
And as for chestnuts roasting over an open fire, like in the traditional Christmas carole, forget chestnuts, we've got sweet potatoes!!! Yes, with our new heating system up and running like wild fire, we picked up a fresh, healthy supply of sweet, sweet potatoes to roast up for our Hulkies. A warm post-training snack is the perfect way to warm your hands, warm your belly, warm your heart, and send you on your way home.
Eating steaming hot sweet potatoes on a cold chilly evening with some positive and super sweet Hulkies, is there anything better?! Nope, didn't think so.
In the making of Hulk's Boxing Club, one of our prime objectives was to also make it more so like a club, a hangout place, as opposed to just a training facility. And I realized today that this is really what differentiates us from the other boxing clubs here in Cheonan, more so than just our size and extra components like crossfit, kettlebells and monkey bars. This is what separates us even from other training facilities, beyond boxing clubs, like the one we visited yesterday where they rely on quantity (member numbers) and consequently many members don't know each other much less does the club owner even know all their names. I've tried hard to learn everyone's name and every day I start my work day off by going through the list of names and their profile pictures. I've learnt exactly 541 names, and that's just the names of our Hulkies.
I love Hulk's, I really do, and I appreciate everyone who has invested into our club, whether it be the mom down the street who sends her two daughters or the business man who spars almost every Wednesday. Having said this though, there are definitely some real "club goers" at Hulk's -- members who are here for both the training part and for the club hangout part, and you can pick them so easily because they're the ones who linger come to our social events, linger around the club before/after training, and whom we all know by first name. They're also the ones who go up and beyond of what is expected of them as a member by trying to help out.
There's been countless times when members have helped to take down laundry, lent someone some extra clothes for training, or helped new members learn how to stretch properly. I love that about our club -- it IS a club within a club. So, for today's posting, I would like to quickly mention such incidents that happened today were members really show us "familyship", as Snickers puts it. Friendship plus the feeling of being in a big family together.
1. It's become a routine ritual for one of my older Hulkies to buy me lemon tea from my juice bar every day after he trains and then sit around chatting with me before the crowd comes in.
2. A member volunteered to bring us more potatoes from her house.
3. Five of high school aged Hulkies came by right after school, to hang out. They hung out for two hours before actually training.
4. Some men bring women flowers, others bring them chocolate or candy. Today one male Hulkie brought me a shovel. It was for our coal heater.
5. My mini Hulkies prepared this month's club calendar for me, all on their own!
6. One of my mini Hulkies helped me organize the member profile book.
7. One of our Hulkies who had attended our Spooky Movie Party After Party thought he'd make me laugh by randomly text messaging me pictures that he had took then with his phone.
8. When I was interrupted during my computer work, one Hulkie took it upon himself to finish my work -- he entered in all the dates and names of the new members.
9. Some Hulkies threw me a surprise after work dinner party to congratulate me on my fight victory.
10. Our dinner party returned to Hulk's, where we sat around the coal heater chatting till about 3am.
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