06/28/2021
This is amazing!! I built my life around Shotokan Karate, after I had my first child I wanted to keep training, so I had set a goal to compete in the open division of our National Tournament. Victoria was a 4 months old when I won my first National title in Kata!! I was a single mom and qualifying to go to a World Tournament was great, but seemed impossible to make happen. The Karate community rallied and helped fund the trip, a friend came with me and took care of Victoria while I competed in Montreal.....it was an amazing experience and set me into the ITKF world of Shotokan Karate. It is interesting in retrospection that it was always the year after the birth of my other two children that I would come back and win National titles. As women we should rally around these amazing women trailblazing for life after pregnancy.....hmmmmm.....being told to "stay in your place"......Let's make THAT place be whatever the HELL we FEEL like it should BE!!! I know I will be watching this woman find hers in a couple of weeks.
Felix launched her own track shoe brand this week, years after Nike told her to stay in her lane.