Tag: #momboxer

Be you, always!

She Believed She Could And So She Did: International All Female Boxing Tournament

  “She can box!” It’s all I ever wanted to showcase, to prove or display.  It’s true.  Showing that I, a grown woman in my late-thirties when I started and now 51 – can box.  Not a brawl or a scrap but a clean, technical boxing match. I checked that box 14 times with this…
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June 3, 2023 1

Mom vs coach: Thoughts on my 10-year old’s first sanctioned boxing match.

Watching your child compete in a boxing match for the first time is an experience from the inside out.  The good kind.  All the feels from start to finish.  Nerves, excitement, pride, and inspiration all wrapped up into what feels like the tightest fist.  At the end, those proud parental tear ducts start to fill…
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August 23, 2022 0

Lessons in Quarantine

  Last week I ran three consecutive km’s.  Twice I may add!  By EOW I aim to be at 5km.  I’m recovering from a knee injury and due to COVID, suffered way too long before I could see a physiotherapist.  Healing has seemed like an eternity at this point! Sharing the lessons I’ve learnt during…
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July 20, 2020 1

Ring Talk Episode 4:  Consistency

We’re back to the gym this week folks!  Ring talk! Athletes, coaches and everyone in-between, COVID19 took something very dear to us all for a what seemed like an eternity!  Yes, we’ve been working, staying active and if you’re like me, maybe you took the opportunity to rest more and include some other disciplines –…
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June 19, 2020 0

Mommy’s journey…

It’s a journey whether we reach the intended destination or not.  We move on. With that, my journey to the 2nd Annual West Coast Wonder Woman Tournament in Sooke, BC was a very public one and it’s only fitting to announce here that this year, that trip won’t be the destination I was working towards. …
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May 12, 2019 0

Like a girl – what does it mean?

Do “it” like a girl has become so popular.  I’ve been asked many times what it means, and my response is always “in general” or “to me personally”?  I like the latter because if people don’t get the former then, well, they probably never will. It’s hard not to look around and wonder where the…
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July 12, 2018 0