雨の遊び場から「マンショップ」へ:Lisa TitanがSt Johns Boxingを築くまで
Starring
Lisa TitanはSt Johns Boxingのオーナー兼ヘッドコーチで、USA Boxing認定コーチです。2005年、ポートランドのローラーダービーチームRose City Rollersを通じて格闘技の世界に入り、ボクシング、ムエタイ、柔術をクロストレーニングしたのち、ボクシングに落ち着きました。キャリアの大半を、司法と関わる若者を支えるコミュニティ司法の仕事に費やしてきました。その経験は今もジムの無料会員制度に生きています。2021年にSt Johns Boxingを開き、自らを「社会起業家」と呼んでいます。
Sabrina EvelandはSt Johns Boxingのコーチで、USA Boxingのブロンズレベル認定コーチ、NASM認定パーソナルトレーナーです。産後うつのさなかにボクシングと出会い、それをコーチとしての仕事につなげました。笑っていい、失敗していい、自分のペースで学んでいい。ジムの土台になっている、プレッシャーをかけない指導スタイルで知られています。
About the Gym
St Johns Boxing is a woman-owned boxing gym in the St. Johns neighborhood of North Portland. Lisa Titan founded it in 2021 in the old Man Shop, a menswear store that anchored the block for decades—she kept the sign in the window rather than let the neighborhood down. Six independent coaches run a mixed-skill program: no-contact boxing workouts, beginner "green level" classes, technique-first light sparring, a small competitive team, and a youth class.
It deliberately fills the recreational middle between fitness-only boxing and hard competitive gyms, and offers free memberships to anyone tied to the justice system, at-risk youth, or in financial need. The room is kind by design—no screaming, no intimidation—a place the coaches sum up as we play boxing.
📍 Address: 8511 N Lombard St, Portland, OR 97203 (St. Johns, North Portland)
📞 Phone: (503) 459-3046
Summary
This is the story of a reluctant owner. Lisa Titan came to combat sports through Portland roller derby, then found her home in the culture of a small, inclusive boxing gym. When COVID closed it, she and about a dozen displaced members kept training on a school playground under a shelter—until someone had to reopen a gym, and nobody else knew how. So she did: a dance studio rented by the hour, then the old Man Shop storefront she gutted and rebuilt with her own hands. Today St Johns Boxing is a woman-owned community gym where people who never pictured themselves boxing find out they love it.
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