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[greynotsoold]

This is something I found about the gym where I began my teaching career, boxing-wise. I started, myself, when I was 10, riding my bike across town to a gym where some top quality fighters worked out. Of course, they had no time for me, so I stood and watched guys like jimmy montoya and tony cerdan and jack mosley teach guys like Mike weaver, Alberto davila, Alberto and richie sandoval. Shane Mosley wasn't coming to the gym then. I'd take what i learned, go home and practice, then teach it to my sister and the other younger kids on my block.
The Chino gym, in particular, came into my world when i was 13 or 14. My friend wanted to be a fighter; his cousin had come out of the neighborhood described and done well as an amateur boxer (and a pre-law student), so he would take us down there to work out. I was good target practice because I was hard to hit (the shoulder roll is so easy and natural) and didn't know how to close distance and hit back. This I taught myself later on.
In the early 90s, my friend's son wanted to learn how to box, so I started teaching him; I'm good at teaching, and he got good at boxing. We would work out in his Dad's garage; a lot of mitt work as I taught him, lessons I had learned watching others years before, things I'd picked up while haunting gyms since then, and my own twists. Pretty soon I was teaching a handful of kids from his varrio, some miles away. And I started taking them to the chino gym.
mostly because it cost $5 a year to sign a kid up, and you had to buy a mouthpiece. they had their own gloves and handwraps, so we'd go to the gym for the routine and to find sparring. His name isn't in the following, but carlos Becerril was great; a former contender for a world title, he let me teach my guys in his gym. Roger Gonzalez (28-6, 18 kos as we speak) trained there and used to spar with one of my kids. He ran the gym for some time.
At amateur shows there over the years I have had the pleasure of sitting next to Mike weaver and talking boxing for a couple hours; he didn't remember me as the skinny little white kid that had watched him workout 20 years before. Alberto davila has been a life-long hero of mine. I also have many close friends that are Chino Sinners- didn't meet one in the gym.
I met one when i was in7th grade and he was in first. I tutored him in reading and math and his goal was to be a boxing champ and a Sinner. In the late 90s I went to a party for him; he had just been released from prison, a Sinner inggo d standing, and the mantle in his mother's house carried several of his boxing trophies. When i lived in phoenix, several of the Chino homeboys would bring cars out for the lowrider car show and that is a party...
So anyway, here is the article...

http://www.chinoboxingclub.com/clien...20Of%20CBC.pdf

[Youngblood]

I think I fixed that for you, grey. Let me know if I missed anything.

[Andre]

My page keeps freezing when i click on it, is it just my computer or everyones?

[greynotsoold]

When I posted the link, I somehow posted the link to a video I posted on the "Beer Review..." thread in the Off Topic board. YB, gentleman that he is, fixed it for me. In fact, I posted the same (mistaken) video twice.

[Beanz]

My page keeps freezing when i click on it, is it just my computer or everyones?

It works for me. I get the link straight to the PDF which opens fine. Respect Grey

[Gonzo13]

This is something I found about the gym where I began my teaching career, boxing-wise. I started, myself, when I was 10, riding my bike across town to a gym where some top quality fighters worked out. Of course, they had no time for me, so I stood and watched guys like jimmy montoya and tony cerdan and jack mosley teach guys like Mike weaver, Alberto davila, Alberto and richie sandoval. Shane Mosley wasn't coming to the gym then. I'd take what i learned, go home and practice, then teach it to my sister and the other younger kids on my block.
The Chino gym, in particular, came into my world when i was 13 or 14. My friend wanted to be a fighter; his cousin had come out of the neighborhood described and done well as an amateur boxer (and a pre-law student), so he would take us down there to work out. I was good target practice because I was hard to hit (the shoulder roll is so easy and natural) and didn't know how to close distance and hit back. This I taught myself later on.
In the early 90s, my friend's son wanted to learn how to box, so I started teaching him; I'm good at teaching, and he got good at boxing. We would work out in his Dad's garage; a lot of mitt work as I taught him, lessons I had learned watching others years before, things I'd picked up while haunting gyms since then, and my own twists. Pretty soon I was teaching a handful of kids from his varrio, some miles away. And I started taking them to the chino gym.
mostly because it cost $5 a year to sign a kid up, and you had to buy a mouthpiece. they had their own gloves and handwraps, so we'd go to the gym for the routine and to find sparring. His name isn't in the following, but carlos Becerril was great; a former contender for a world title, he let me teach my guys in his gym. Roger Gonzalez (28-6, 18 kos as we speak) trained there and used to spar with one of my kids. He ran the gym for some time.
At amateur shows there over the years I have had the pleasure of sitting next to Mike weaver and talking boxing for a couple hours; he didn't remember me as the skinny little white kid that had watched him workout 20 years before. Alberto davila has been a life-long hero of mine. I also have many close friends that are Chino Sinners- didn't meet one in the gym.
I met one when i was in7th grade and he was in first. I tutored him in reading and math and his goal was to be a boxing champ and a Sinner. In the late 90s I went to a party for him; he had just been released from prison, a Sinner inggo d standing, and the mantle in his mother's house carried several of his boxing trophies. When i lived in phoenix, several of the Chino homeboys would bring cars out for the lowrider car show and that is a party...
So anyway, here is the article...

http://www.chinoboxingclub.com/clien...20Of%20CBC.pdf

Very interesting. I've been to the current Chino gym and the one when it was directly across the street, many years ago. I actually met Mike Sedillo at the latter. He was still boxing(competing) at that time.

Years later I met Mikes uncle, Frankie Sedillo, who also boxed, really nice guy. Frankie was helping out at a boxing gym in Ontario. He would hold pads and give tips to some of the guys at the gym.

[greynotsoold]

This is something I found about the gym where I began my teaching career, boxing-wise. I started, myself, when I was 10, riding my bike across town to a gym where some top quality fighters worked out. Of course, they had no time for me, so I stood and watched guys like jimmy montoya and tony cerdan and jack mosley teach guys like Mike weaver, Alberto davila, Alberto and richie sandoval. Shane Mosley wasn't coming to the gym then. I'd take what i learned, go home and practice, then teach it to my sister and the other younger kids on my block.
The Chino gym, in particular, came into my world when i was 13 or 14. My friend wanted to be a fighter; his cousin had come out of the neighborhood described and done well as an amateur boxer (and a pre-law student), so he would take us down there to work out. I was good target practice because I was hard to hit (the shoulder roll is so easy and natural) and didn't know how to close distance and hit back. This I taught myself later on.
In the early 90s, my friend's son wanted to learn how to box, so I started teaching him; I'm good at teaching, and he got good at boxing. We would work out in his Dad's garage; a lot of mitt work as I taught him, lessons I had learned watching others years before, things I'd picked up while haunting gyms since then, and my own twists. Pretty soon I was teaching a handful of kids from his varrio, some miles away. And I started taking them to the chino gym.
mostly because it cost $5 a year to sign a kid up, and you had to buy a mouthpiece. they had their own gloves and handwraps, so we'd go to the gym for the routine and to find sparring. His name isn't in the following, but carlos Becerril was great; a former contender for a world title, he let me teach my guys in his gym. Roger Gonzalez (28-6, 18 kos as we speak) trained there and used to spar with one of my kids. He ran the gym for some time.
At amateur shows there over the years I have had the pleasure of sitting next to Mike weaver and talking boxing for a couple hours; he didn't remember me as the skinny little white kid that had watched him workout 20 years before. Alberto davila has been a life-long hero of mine. I also have many close friends that are Chino Sinners- didn't meet one in the gym.
I met one when i was in7th grade and he was in first. I tutored him in reading and math and his goal was to be a boxing champ and a Sinner. In the late 90s I went to a party for him; he had just been released from prison, a Sinner inggo d standing, and the mantle in his mother's house carried several of his boxing trophies. When i lived in phoenix, several of the Chino homeboys would bring cars out for the lowrider car show and that is a party...
So anyway, here is the article...

http://www.chinoboxingclub.com/clien...20Of%20CBC.pdf

Very interesting. I've been to the current Chino gym and the one when it was directly across the street, many years ago. I actually met Mike Sedillo at the latter. He was still boxing(competing) at that time.

Years later I met Mikes uncle, Frankie Sedillo, who also boxed, really nice guy. Frankie was helping out at a boxing gym in Ontario. He would hold pads and give tips to some of the guys at the gym.

The have the new one now, by the police station and just up from the church. I went there several times in 2006 but didn't know anybody there any more. I took my friend's son and his friend there but now they don't let any one but the actual staff coaches work with boxers.
The last time I saw Mike Sedillo was 13 or 14 years ago. He was saying that he was going to fight Larry Holmes and get paid real real well for the fight. Everybody thought he was punchy, and more than a little delusional. Checking his record this morning, that was right around the time he fought Razor Ruddock, and he fought Tim Witherspoon after that. Of course, he had already fought Hembrick and Maynard and, of course, Michael Moorer.