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Updated April 18, 2018

Pictures from Chicago Golden Gloves

April 12-14, 2018

Coach Izzy and Allen sparred round # 1000 Saturday, April 7, and pushed the number to 1005.

Picture on left by Coach. On right, after #1000

March 2018

Coach Izzy & Allen have logged 951 rounds of sparring as of March 3, 2018

March 3, 2108 (above): 951 rounds today

300 rounds July 2016
400 rounds October 2016
500 rounds January 2017
600 rounds April 2017
700 rounds July 2017 Started 3-minute rounds
800 rounds October 2017
900 rounds January 2018 Pictures left & above

December 2017

The Coach is always promising to put some BBQ sauce on his boxers' ribs to teach us to keep our elbows down. I figured it
would be good to give him my favorite flavor, Bull's Eye Original, along with a T-shirt to associate a great coach with a great brand.

Below, left, coach is suggesting the approximate
area where the hot sauce will stick.

About the sauce, Cook's Illustrated (which I think is the best cooking magazine there is) wrote (June 2017)
"In the end, our winner was once again the aptly named Bull’s-Eye Original BBQ Sauce. This moderately sweet, tomatoey sauce offered just enough
spice and smoke, producing a well-balanced medley of flavors with no specific flavor dominating. Our winning product was delicious and versatile,
and it wasn’t too thick or thin. We’ll be using this palate-pleasing sauce all summer long." (Quoted from www.cooksillustrated.com.)


	Coach Izzy & Allen (& Gavin) Pictures from Nov. 17, 21, 25 840 rounds and counting

Always honored to salute my great boxing coach, Israel Gonzales, the man behind Izzyduzitfitness. On Oct. 31, 2017, we sparred round #840 (date of pictures left & center above). We started sparring in late October 2015, so it took us 2 years to rack up this number of rounds. It's a good thing the coach can modify his punches or we would have had to stop about the time we started.
Coach Izzy and I crossed the 700-round mark July 5, 2017. Then we switched from 2-minute rounds (doing 6 rounds per session) to 3-minute rounds (4 rounds per session). We did 5 3-minute rounds for a couple of sessions, and then moved up to 6 3-min. rounds, twice a week.

Pictures above August 2017.
Celebrating 600 rounds back in April 2017--seems like a long time ago!
Here's Coach Israel Gonzalez with some members of his boxing team (September 19, 2017).

Allen boxing at Extreme Kung Fu	Allen's reviews of boxing books
& boxing at . . . the Evanston Boxing Club St. Norbert's in Northfield, MN Corpus Christi, TX	Some are books by and / or about boxers, others are fiction in which boxing plays a part, even a minor part. If the book sheds light on the subject of boxing, I am hoping to include it here.