VIDEO: Boxer's Decade Spent Teaching Kids and Adults the Ropes

Big Lew has trained Golden Gloves champions. Big Lew has also trained the kid down the street who needed an outlet. Sometimes in both scenerios he was training the same person.

Through the Chicago Heights Park District's West Golf Course, Pat Lewandowski, or Big Lew, has spent nearly ten years training and coaching aspiring boxers of different ages, sexes and backgrounds.

Check out the video below to see what it's like walking into the Park District gym and boxing ring where Lew runs the show.

Big Lews boxing program opertates every week on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. For details call the Chicago Heights Park District at 708-755-1351.