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, April 07, 2016

Going South for Some Action... Thursday, April 7

Coach Perez gave me some homework -- memorize the following Spanish phrase:
Nos vemos en mayo, en la ciudad de Mexico con LC promotions.
I was sitting with Ginger Spice, drinking coffee before weight training when he suddenly called me up.  I thought he was calling me to see if I was weight training.  I haven't been weight training as much lately because he wants me to lay off it a bit, save my energy for boxing.  He wasn't calling for that but I got a good giggle out of thinking he was because I was just about to go to System.  Anyways, so I answered his call and he asks me, "How good is your Spanish?"  My Spanish is about as good as my Japanese (and by that I mean not good and limited to random words).  He then told me he was going to send me a voice recording for me to memorize because tomorrow we would be filming me saying it.  He also told me he wanted me to translate it into Korean, no problem.  When I asked him what the translation was he texted it to me.
Translation:  See you in May, in Mexico, with LC Promotions.
Looks like I am signing for a fight in Mexico, possibly up to three actually.  See, I have only been with Hardknocks amd Coach Perez for about a month and already they are doing what I needed my former coach to do -- train me hard and get me fights. 

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