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.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Injuries are an Expected Accessory... Wednesday, August 19

My abs still hurt from the mean core exercise Coach Brown pushed me through on Monday.

My right foot is pretty messed up.  It's got a massive blister and two patches of skin that have been completely scratched the hell off because of me working the sandbag at System with bare feet on.  My right ankle is a bit wonky too because of training with no boots on.  The price of trying to save my boxing boots for only boxing at the club is a weaker right ankle, well for the time being.  

I'm sporting one bloody and scratched up knuckle on my right hand which is minor but is incredibly painful considering it never really gets due time to heal and it's always getting used at training.  

I have a blood spot on the side of my left temple from where I took a mean left hook pad to my head.  

Today I scored a minor bruise on my left eye from when I didn't slip when Coach Brown threw a jab with the pad at my face.  I took that jab full force right in the eye... felt "great". 

Took a left hook to my nose too today and that felt even "greater" than the jab.  Instantly tears filled my eyes and I spun around to shake it off.  Coach Brown stood there laughing so I broke out into a laugh too.  "You know you're only going to get more so get used to it", he said.  He's so right too, so damn spot on right.  

Injuries come with the profession but of course you want to avoid them and try to take preventative measures.  Tonight I helped my coworker Kick Kat with her training by participating in a Mauy Thai class with her.  Talk about trying to take preventative measures, in addition to trying to not get punched by her I also had the "joy" of trying to not get kicked too, yikes.  She may be young and she may be small but that girl sports some kangaroo legs that are lethal!  I almost took a knee to the head and that was a bit of an intense scare.  It was hard holding those massive pads for her while she whaled away at kicking them but it was good.  I'm sporting a bit of an agitated right wrist now because of it but I ended up icing it after class so it's all good now.  

I think my body is so used to being used and abused, beat up and injured.
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