. >> nine rounds was co-founded ten years ago by the husband and wife team of shannon and heather hudson thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> it's great to see you you met shannon when you took one of his karate classes. >> exactly i wanted to learn self-defense and ended up really finding myself through fitness that form of fitness was new to me i had always done step aerobics. i'm grateful to my mom for installing a love of jane fonda in me. that was my gateway drug to fitness. all jokes aside, but i felt more powerful when i left a karate class than i had ever felt fast forward that to nine round. it was powerful for me to do that workout >> you were a professional kick boxer and boxer when you guys first started this whole thing. >> yeah. >> what lessons did you take from that? it looks like a lot. >> i won a world title and i only made $2,400 so i'm like, there has to be a better way but besides the money, i said how do i take this type of training and give it to real people but take out the worst part which is getting punched in the face it's no fun. so we creat