I'm likely going to meet a teenager new to this area who is interested in boxing. He had started training himself on Long Island, before his family moved up here in the sticks. The head of the teachers union contacted me a week ago, as she knows my family -- she taught two of my daughters, one now living and boxing in Boston. Anyhow, I suggested my son train him, but his current schedule isn't really open. (Since he hasn't had any fights since covid started, he's competing in 32-mile races with 60 obstacles along the way.)
It's a beautiful but brutal sport. I wish my children didn't fight, but they are carrying on a tradition that goes back many generations. I train my son leading yp to his fights, but he's good at keeping in shape. Since the finals of the state Golden Gloves were cancelled in April of 2020, he's only taken 10 days off from training.
He's helped me with training others over the years, and is very good at it. I don't train many fighters these days, but every one I've trained since 1975 has won the Golden Gloves. I'm confident my son will carry that tradition on when he stops fighting. My daughter, a social worker, trains girls from low-income families in the summer, when they are out of school.