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Over the past few years the Gulf Association of USA Boxing has really grown. Recently we lost our President, Walt Hailey to retirement. He was replaced by our vice president Juan Moya, head coach of the Eastside Boxing club in North Shore. Although he has some big shoes to fill, he has done an excellent job thus far.
Amateur boxing shows are abundant around the Houston area. There are teams now in Conroe, Humble, Katy, and more popping up every day. Coaches are coming out of the walls in and around Houston. Pay fifty dollars, take a little test and throw a towel over your shoulder and you are a boxing coach.
Here is a little advice for those of you who are new to coaching. Take the time to learn the fundamentals.
Learn them well enough to communicate them to your boxers and back off sparring them until they have achieved the ability to get in a stance,
establish rhythm and move in all four directions. Teach them how to jab and throw each of the other nine punches correctly.
Parents do not bring their kid to you so you can make a punching bag out of them. They expect you to know how to teach boxing. Make sure they have mouthpieces, handwraps, a fowl protector, headgears and large gloves when they spar the first time. Act as referee and coach inside the ring with them.
Do not teach your boxer a style. A style is easy to prepare for and beat. Give them the ability to move all four directions, throw and defense all ten punches, get out of corners and off the ropes and most importantly, when to initiate their punches at an opponent.
Range for each boxer is different, so you must be able to communicate to the boxer how to determine his or her range.
All the above are the easy part of coaching a boxer. This is stuff you will not learn on your little written test. How you learn the above and how well you understand it and communicate it to boxers is vital to their futures. Can your boxer win without a lot of the stuff above?Yes, of course he can at a local level, and even on a state level if he has enough natural ability. There have even been some with an abundance of natural ability who have won at a national level. But remember, they are the exception, rather than the rule. Your job is to develop this kid to be as good as he or she can be. There are thousands who have gotten to the elite level and lost. It is your job as a coach to make sure your boxer and yourself are fundamentally sound, so your boxer can achieve his goal.
God bless,
KENNY WELDON--713-298-6442
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Light Heavyweight Chris "Hard Hittin'"
Henry of Houston (24-2, 19 KO's) is scheduled to fight Hugo
"Pigu" Hernan Garay of Buenos Aires, Argentina (32-4, 17
KO's) for the WBA Interim Light Heavyweight Title on
February 27th in Laredo, Texas!
Light Middleweight Chase "White Tiger"
Shields of Houston (29-3-1, 14 KO's) is scheduled to fight
Jimmy Lange of Great Falls, Virginia (31-3-2, 22 KO's) on
March 6th in Fairfax, Virginia!
Cruiserweight Adam
"Swamp Donkey" Richards of Houston (23-2, 15 KO's) is
scheduled to challenge Marco "Kapt'n" Huck of Germany (27-1,
20 KO's) for the WBO Cruiserweight title on March 13th in
Berlin, Germany!!
