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Boxing Tutor Skills Awards
The Boxing Tutor 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 awards provide a fun recreational programme for participants, irrespective of age, gender or level of ability. They are designed to promote a fit and healthy lifestyle with increased self esteem and confidence.
The scheme now has six levels, which have been thoroughly field tested and provide an excellent entry route into amateur boxing, with particular emphasis on core skills, technique, movement, coordination, defensive skills and fitness development. It also includes elements designed to test knowledge and understanding.
An important addition to the ABAE National Boxing Awards is the Healthy Lifestyle section, which explains the value of a well balanced diet, nutrition, rest and hydration.
The first three awards (preliminary, standard and bronze) are all non-contact and can be taught in boxing clubs to new members or recreational boxers, and in non-specialist facilities such as community halls or school gyms. The non-contact part of the Awards may be taught by a stand alone ABAE boxing tutor. The silver and gold awards involve technique development in modified conditioned sparring, and need to be coached in a boxing club with a qualified ABAE coach in attendance.
The sixth award is the platinum award, which takes the boxer into competition at a show for a skills bout, where the boxer will gain valuable competition experience and the opportunity to demonstrate skills, fitness and ability. Before a boxer can undertake a skills bout, they must be able to demonstratea certain level of competence and technique.
An ABAE boxing tutor is qualified to teach the non-contact part of the awards; preliminary, standard and bronze (24 structured lessons of boxing). These are designed to be taught in schools, colleges, youth clubs, colleges and universities. An ABAE qualified boxing coach can deliver all 48 lessons in schools (non-contact) and semi-contact in their boxing club. Additionally, the boxing tutor course has been deliberately designed to teach tutors how to deliver non-contact boxing in the public domain, outside of a boxing gym environment.
Many boxing coaches of all levels wishing to teach the awards in the schools or youth club environment are now attending the ABAE boxing tutor course to grasp a complete understanding of how to deliver and run the awards, inside and outside of their boxing gyms.
The incentive will be to make the links between the Awards and a local club, thereby fulfilling the school/club link objectives and providing a framework for 'exit routes' for those community development projects seeking to use boxing training as a personal and social development tool.
Apart from the benefits to the young people involved, in terms of fitness, technique acquisition and developing an understanding of the components of skill learning and fitness development, the syllabus provides an excellent framework for coaches to focus on and deal with young people who have not traditionally come to boxing clubs.
The ABAE boxing tutor course and the associated incentive scheme therefore contribute not only to an increase in growth of the sport beyond its traditional social and demographic parameters, but also help coaches and club personnel come to terms with new ideas in participation and performance development in diverse communities. Equally, it allows teachers to encounter a sport which they are unlikely to have used before in delivering the PE curriculum.
Managed on behalf of the ABAE by Q Shillingford, ABAE advanced coach and former head coach of the British Armed Forces/Royal Navy, the programme has been very successful. Nearly 3000 people have now qualified as ABAE boxing tutors.
Keith Walters, ABAE Chairman, said: "The ABAE boxing tutor course has been deliberately designed for coaches wishing to deliver the awards in a fun, recreational way, as part of the school curriculum or as an after-school club or youth group. It is ideal for school summer holiday boxing camps."
ABAE coaches, clubs, schools and local authorities wishing to get involved can now go online at www.boxingawards.co.uk and order their non-contact boxing booklets.
For further information please visit www.boxingawards.co.uk
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.
Get involved
Visit www.boxingawards.co.uk for more information and contact details.