Teaching boxing in schools

You out of East End ain't ya? that would make sense.

I remember coach said to me once ''don't like hooks, keep everything straight'' Went Battersea ABC and i said ''where's the other pad'' he said ''they only got on head''. You could imagine a man in his late 50's early 60's doing padwork with one pad......:-(

 

Not sure mate i know he was looking for a club for his kid a while back. This was years back when i went. 13 years old.

That's what clubs should do, let fighters be natural. If there trying to be Naz but don't have the characteristics or attributes then strip him down to basics etc and make him into a different style fighter.

At Rosehill ABC there wasn't any real good teaching going on, a lot of what i was taught was off TV. I boxed at a club near Earlsfield called King Georges ABC which has shutdown now sadly but there i learned a few things but i think East End is the place to be for Amateur Boxing IMO.

 

Yeah that's it, you won't get a straight up contract with like 5 schools when you begin, you'll probs only start with one, then you can either go out and promote yourself, or word gets around. You'll find a lot of schools in your local area have connections within other schools. Just need to get the ball rolling.

 

great idea I'm a teacher in London and would love this for pupils I teach, unfortunatley parents seem to focus on the idea that it teachers violence rather than discipline, I would seriously have this in a lot of schools if it was possible as there's so many kids out there who would benefit. I coach basketball and because I make it so competitive the kids love it so as soon as they fall behind in work they cant play, which makes them at least try to stay focused, you can use boxing in the same way, I think people forget a lot of the time just how much kids can benefit from making sports competitive which is why I'm so angry over cuts to school sports partnerships. Good luck with it mate.

 

You could link to your local football project like West Ham Kickz in your area. Ask to do a Boxing Workshop with the young people. I think you would have to go to the local Youth Offending Team Y.O.T and plug you self. We used to have Cricket workshops and Ex-Gangsters turn up to talk about there past. all sorts really...and you would get paid.

Also try local youth clubs, plug it as a boxercise session for the young people etc.

 

also try ur local health and fitness centre if u can rent the hall nd ask them to advertise, always something different and ud get loads of smokin' birds there

 

Not wishing to go off on a tangent, but I think the whole school sports system should be overhauled.

There's too much variety and not enough choice - in winter it's football and rugby, in summer it's cricket, tennis and athletics..... with the odd bit of gymnastics thrown in.

We should adopt an Australian type system where the individual gets a choice as to what sport they can do all year round. Each school will have half a dozen PE teachers, or perhaps more, and will all specialise in particular sports.

Two of my PE teachers were exceptional rugby players in their day and also very good coaches..... but when it came to football they were both hopeless. Others vice versa.

You can play any sport all year round, tennis and cricket in doors during winter obviously.... and most schools have the equipment stored, but just gathering dust.

By doing this you are encouraging people to aspire more, competition for places in school teams, and would point them in the direction of local clubs to allow them to pursue this further.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/more-sport/boxing/2009/08/15/boxing-is-still-a-hit-115875-21598123/

 

Totally agree with that.

I was teaching at a school round corner from me, been there for years and the kids loved football. So one day i get told there not doing football for a while because they had to do Badminton. As you could gather that didn't go down well with the kids but also losing a session cost me ££. Luckily i filled the slot at another school but your right the kids should have the choice. It would benefit everyone IMO. I know some will say but what if a kid finds a talent in something he didn't pick. Well that's ok but fact is kids should do things they enjoy.

The amount of kids i coach who tell me ''I ain't doing P.E tomorrow at school'' i say why? they reply ''cos it's long...i ain't doing Tennis...i wanna play football or basketball'' So that kid will now do ****all for an hour because he's handed in a forged note or hasn't brought kit.

It be great if it happened Beeston....not sure the P.E teachers i had at my school would like it. Sounds to much like hard work!

 

It's a strange set up.

I'd imagine most people are better at things they enjoy..... my favourite sport was rugby, and I was a good player. I didn't enjoy badminton, and was **** - but so was everybody else pretty much because they couldn't be arsed either.

PE lessons should last two hours, instead of two 60 minute sessions a week, have one two hour session - by the time everyone's got changed, got out and set up, then came back in and showered etc you'd get 45 minutes if you're lucky.

Our PE teachers would have loved it, as I've said two of them were rugby mad, one of them had chronic back trouble so running around to referee football is a nightmare, plus he wasn't that interested in it..... whereas rugby is much easier for an immobile person to ref.

It's no co-incidence that whatever sports Australians take seriously they whip everyone :yep

 

good points on doing things you enjoy you be good at and also the 2 hour sessions your right as you say once everyone's changed the sessions nearly over. 2 hours for me as a coach i can really get into lads what i'm teaching. 1 hour isn't enough at all...especially when they talk about cool-downs etc. Only way you can do cooldown is if you cut match time where players look to practice what they should of learned.

A parent once said to me that the Aussie mentality towards sports is big reason why they produce.