
Generous with his talents, John has coached and helped a number of professional
bodybuilders. He's helped them with posing and their training, including champions
Vince
Taylor, Melvin Anthony, Shawn Ray, Cynthia Hill and given a small help
to
Richard Jones. He has custom developed choreography for men,
women and couples.
Business wise John is very successful. He has been interested in business since
the age of four. At one time John was running a successful multinational sportswear
company called J.Brown Gear and he is currently running two companies,
EOEO
Clothing and
Chronic187 Soda.
EOEO Clothing manufacturers
tee shirts for juniors and Chronic187 Soda is a fresh new hip hop soda company.
John has been an innovator in business as well as in sports. He was the first
person in the U.S. to use "
Spandex" in sports outfits, the first
bodybuilder to start a fitness clothing line and the first person to launch a
hip hop soda company. John was the designer of the attention getting outfits
of the Olympic champions
Florence Griffith-Joyner and
Valerie
Briscoe-Hooks.John has also designed clothing for many large national and international apparel
corporations such as
Uncle Sam of Germany.
John's education includes a B.A. in art from Cal State Fullerton plus self-study
in business. He is also bilingual he speaks English and German.
His other sports
have included football, baseball, basketball and track. Gifted with natural athletic
ability he calls himself "an all around athlete who is a bodybuilder."
John's wide-ranging interest include painting, music, dancing, logic, volunteer
work with "
Kids in Schools and Gyms" and movies. John has been in five films
(and his clothing in two films) and also some
Panasonic commercials in Japan.
He is currently negotiating his first
one-man show of his paintings.
John is a member of the International Federation of Bodybuilders (
IFBB),
Screen Actors Guild (
SAG),
NAACP and
United
We Stand. His honors include a college scholarship
grant, several art competition wins, numerous "Most Muscular" and "Best Poser" bodybuilding
awards and the prestigious
NAACP Award in
Sports
and Business.