With just a little over a week before Snickers’ fight, him injuring his ankle during sparring sent waves of stress barreling through the boxing club. Junior Mint jumped all over the situation by taking Snickers to the doctor’s office. I’ve always been all for letting time and rest heel the body but Snickers doesn’t exactly have extra time on his hands. Having said that though, the moment they told me who the doctor was that they’d be going to see, I thought it would be a big waste of time.
I’ve already clued into the notion that Koreans do things much differently here. I’ve got a needle in the butt once to help cure a swollen foot. For itchy eyes I was given a bottle of dead flowers and various plants that had sat around decaying in a clay pot for over a year, and the list goes on. My Korean friends and in-laws have suggested a lot of strange so-called natural remedies to me that seem anything but natural. But the worst remedy suggestion came from this particular doctor who upon seeing my overly dry itchy eyes, suggested for me to eat kimchi. I didn’t know what to say, what could I say, after all regardless of how bogus I thought his remedy was and the fact that I was dying to ask to see his creditals as a doctor, he also trains at my boxing club.
None the less, we went to go see the infamous “must-eat-kimchi” doctor.
He never did give Snickers the same lecture about how kimchi supposedly solves everything – I like kimchi but I doubt it giving me gas solves anything for me. He did however poke a bunch of needles into Snickers’s hand and then poke about a million tiny-weeny holes in the side of his ankle. I’m down with the needles in the hand, it’s called acupuncture, but as for purposely poking his ankle to agitate the blood and make it bleed, I’ve very skeptic. Unless there’s dead blood under my skin, the blood circulates throughout my body so I don’t buy his whole “bad blood here only” idea. To each their own I guess.
Snickers argued that drawing out blood worked but I’m convinced it’s one of those mind-over-matter situations where you feel what you believe.
The mind is a very, very powerful thing. Having said this, I wonder how many things I’ve bought into because I believed something that actually wasn’t what it actually was… did I totally lose you there?!
Yup, I think too much… hahaha.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
If an apple a day keeps the doctor away than what's the saying for kimchi?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
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.
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