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, December 20, 2018

Sweating Over Sweating... Thursday, December 20

Kerry Sports to the rescue, seriously.

With tomorrow being my weigh-in day, I still had mad weight to cut.

Today, before boxing, I weighed in at 116lb.s.
After boxing, I weighed in at 114lbs.

Went to Kerry Sports, and did 7 rounds of the following:
8mins in the sauna or steam room
3mins in the jacuzzi
3mins drying off... aka, a mental and physical break from the pure exhaustion

After about the 4th round, honestly, my body was struggling to sweat and I mentally was really breaking down.  To say it was rough would be the understatement of the year.

I left Kerry Sports weighing in at 110.8lbs.  

Tomorrow, I'm expecting to weigh-in at 107lbs but I've been told there's a 1lb allowance.

Good, thank God, because just yesterday I was told the scale at Team Insider is off by 2lbs so that means while I thought I was doing great, I really was only doing good.  It was quite upsetting to get this news via a text on social media and when I confronted them at Team Insider, they acknowledged it as if it was it common knowledge.  It was totally new to me though.

In other news, I convinced the owner of Team Insider to let Coach Marcelo to come with me to my fight so that's a huge relief.  My corner coach at the fight is Coach Kulba because legally Coach Marcelo isn't allowed to stand in my corner.  However, as much as I tried to get in to do padwork with Coach Kulba, the conflict in schedules, the sudden changes in plans, etc., etc.,... it just didn't happen.  The card I played to score Coach Marcelo was my uniform.  I told him that if he let Coach Marcelo come with me, I'd put the Team Insider logo on my uniform.  So that's exactly what I'm doing.  I get Coach Marcelo and he gets the front of my top.

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