Displaying items by tag: Kickboxing

 How can we stay mentally and physically fit during this pandemic? 

 Before you read this, can you think of any ideas on how Yoga can transfer over to other sports and into our everyday lives? I truthfully never really knew
how MUCH it could.

This, this right here, this hug right after the final bell rang in my fight was a symbol of someone who believed in me. It was a moment we both knew all our hard work paid off. It is my trainer telling me "great job" without saying a word.

 I am fortunate enough to have met our friend Kyle McElroy and my current trainer Tommy Bach at the same exact time in 1997. They were both teaching my very first kickboxing class together. Kyle went his separate way to a school called Z's Martial Arts. I feel like the story behind these two amazing instructors and their journey in the martial arts world is quite difficult to capture in one article. I talk quite a bit about Tommy in my articles because I am his student and train at his studio currently on a regular bases. In this particular article I will try to capture our dear friend for many many years, Kyle MceElroy and the talent he poses and his ability to pass it on to others.

Ever since these kids were in my belly they have always been apart of my life style. For us, it is not an option. Do we have time?  NO! Nobody ever has the time! But we make time, we make it part of our daily routines just as important as eating, sleeping and breathing. They do not know our lives without it. 

      My family is my life. PERIOD. I often get ask why I decided to start training and actually fighting again after fifteen years? I struggle sometimes,  more times than not with thinking, is it ok to have time for me? I believe they call that "mom guilt" and it is real, especially in doing something very outside the norm of motherhood. Sometimes I get caught up in ALWAYS wanting to be with my kids and giving them my all ALL the time. 

                                                                                             "You are NOT  too old and it is NOT to late"

   
 Fifteen years had gone by in a blink and I walked back into Seong Hea's Martial Arts Academy with world champion/trainer Tommy Bach. After what felt like a life time my heart picked up right where it left off, loving kickboxing just as much as I did before I took a long break from it to pursue other things.

A cornerman is much more than JUST a cornerman!!! Most of these photos were captured while training at Seong Hea's Martial Arts Academy in Buffalo Grove, Il.