Waking up to my student texting me that he slept in was icing on today’s cake that my day would be consisting of.
Spent my day nothing but fitness-related stuff.
Tomorrow marks my first meeting with my new personal training client so today I spent a good chunk of my day working on my fitness text. It’s now a total of 45 pages.
Took Mi Nam out for a walk and almost saw him almost become Cheonan’s newest speed bump. We’ve been doing daily lessons with him and our most recent lesson with him is trying to teach him to come when we call him to do so. Ya… it’s obvious he didn’t learn that lesson but instead mistook “come” for “runaway when we call you”. I was convinced he’d be road kill when he ran out into six lanes of traffic. Thankfully he wasn’t but talk about almost peeing my pants!!!
Headed into boxing tonight and got told I had sparring practice today. Who else should be my sparring partner but the tiniest of tiny high school kiddies, a boy that probably stands no higher than my shoulders, that is if he were to stand tippy-toed. I thought Junior Mint was joking when he told me about sparring today but, as it turned out, he wasn’t. The little high school kiddy actually stood there and waited for me. I couldn’t spar with him though, it just seemed too cruel. Buddy-boy wouldn’t be able to punch me in the head even if he jumped up. Ok, so many he could and he would but I knew this would definitely not be a fair sparring session. I joked and told him his face was too cute for me to punch but props to him though for nervously waiting for me though.
I’m frustrated. Snickers has two potential upcoming fights on the table, one for the Korean Light Champion title and one for a fight in the Philippines, and yet he’s been complaining lately that he’s lacking in motivation to go into training. Whereas I, on the other hand, am fighting to have a fight. I’m convinced that if I were a guy in this country that my boxing would be taken more seriously. Junior Mint thinks it’s funny to ask me if I want another game when Snickers is around. He does it more or less to rattle Snickers. Instead, I am a girl -- a girl in Korea -- and me heading into training gets people often calling me pretty – a comment I now officially hate with a passion. Trust me, the last place I will ever be pretty is at the boxing club where I’m sweating like an animal and training like there’s no tomorrow. Calling me pretty may get a thank you from me outside of the boxing club but it’ll leave me cursing your name and wanting to punch you if you call me that while I am training.
Later in the evening Snickers headed out to meet up with his boys, so I went out for a run.
Running in the light rain after 11pm felt so damn good. The only other weather I enjoy running in more is the snow. I think I’m a gluten for punishment because I love the chilly runs. I bundle up in layers of clothing and the only part of me that’s left chilly and numb is my nose.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
When's my next fight?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Author Unknown
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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