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.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

A Pregnant Lady, an Injured Lady, and some Hardcore Ladies...

With our beautiful mommy-to-be Pyen Chi getting bigger by the second, it's only days now until her mini ones enter our life and I for one am super excited.  
I'm convinced there is nothing cuter than a four-legged baby!!!
We discussed the needed prep, "we" as in Snickers and I, and our 3 four-legged seemed to be listening in on the conversation so we decided to talk them about it too.
And yes, we do talk to them like they're people.  Look at Pac, with his head tilted and sitting up straight.  You can't tell me he's not trying to comprehend what Snickers is saying... well, it's either that or he's waiting for when Snickers stops waving his hand and starts petting him.
Later on, right after work had just started, this happened.
A couple walking past our club got accidently hit by a local restaurant worker.
Crunch went the car!
I snapped this shot from our club's side office window, after much of the crowd had gone away.
I kid you not when I say there was easily 40 some spectators, all watching it as if it were some TV show.  Later we then had to go out into our parking lot and clean up the "mess" from the accident.
Work resumed for us and at quite a fast pace too -- 4:45pm and 16 people in Hulk's.
One of my mini Hulkies drew a picture of herself and of Snickers and I.  We've nicknamed her Sakwa which means Apple.  I thought this picture was dead on -- I'm always smiling and talking but Snickers always looks tough and angry when he's coaching.  Notice how I have the smallest head too, hahahaha.
See you later boys or, as one of my Hulkies told them, "See you later girls".
Tonight some of them asked to train alongside me which meant they got to do my weight training workout.  The boys bailed half way through it though.
"They fail. We hardcore!" she said... yes, hardcore was definitely the word of that workout.
I'm all for promoting and bragging about our tough female Hulkies but I definitely have to say that the woman at our club surely train hard.  They are hardcore!

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