Boxing
Boxing has been one of the
favourite and controversial sports in England. The fact remains
that not only is Boxing great exercise and good fun, but it can
also be a great way of providing discipline and routine into
someone's life.
Royals Boxing
Club
The Royals Boxing Club is starting on
Thursday 24 September 2009. It is a non-contact boxing
club and details of timings/age groups/venue are
below:
Thursday 7-8pm - 10-13 year
olds
Thursday 8.30-9.30pm - 14-17 year olds
The venue for the club is Churchmead
School in Datchet in the sports hall.
Click
here for a flyer for a free taster
session on Thursday 24 September).
The club will run every Thursday
evening all year round (except for 2 weeks at
Christmas).
Courses
Amateur Boxing
Association (ABA) of England Boxing Tutor's Award
Information
The Boxing
Tutor Course is a new initiative, which is now taking place
countrywide, with the aim of qualifying as many ABAE Boxing Tutors
as possible.
The course
takes place over one day and is designed for people who wish to
teach the ABAE Boxing Awards. These awards can then be delivered in
schools, colleges, universities, youth and leisure centres and
boxing clubs.
So far, people
from a diverse range of professions have taken part in the course;
including community sports development officers, youth workers,
personal trainers and boxing coaches from local
gyms.
The course
covers the following:
·
Fun warm-up for children and
adults
·
Recreational fun and games
·
All the basic boxing technique
·
Pad and partner work
·
Circuit training
·
Cool down
·
Flexibility and stretching
·
Running the awards in your location
·
Boxing equipment
·
Lesson planning
The ABAE Boxing
Awards
The award scheme is offered in five
stages: preliminary, standard, bronze, silver and gold. Incentives
are offered at every stage. The awards provide a fun recreational
programme for participants, irrespective of age, gender or level of
ability. The preliminary award is designed to promote a fit and
healthy lifestyle with increased self-esteem and confidence. There
is no contact involved in the first three boxing awards and
therefore there is no need for a participant to have a boxing
medical.
However, after progressing
to the silver and gold awards, participants will be required to
undergo a boxing medical and all conditioned sparring must be
conducted by an ABAE qualified coach. Boxing Tutors will be
provided with the necessary literature to assist them with delivery
of the scheme. Each coaching booklet contains a
minute-by-minute lesson plan for each of the 8-week
programmes.
If you are interested in
running and organising the ABA Boxing Awards in Schools, Colleges,
Universities, Youth Centres and Sports Clubs the ABA of England
Boxing Tutor's Course could be the course for you.
