Please click on the the following link to read the latest update from Safeguarding in Sport with regards to the PVG Scheme and Retrospective Checking.
Letter – Retrospective Checking
Latest Safeguarding in Sport Update – PVG Scheme
January 25th, 2012Drumchapel Cashback for Communities report
January 25th, 2012
Cashback Coordinator Craig McEvoy visited Drumchapel High School on Friday 20th January 2012 to demonstrate a typical Amateur Boxing Academy session to Year 5 pupils during a PE session. The aim of the visit was to promote the ABS Cashback for Communities Amateur Boxing Academy throughout the school and to hopefully recruit some interested 10-19 year old young people for the local ABS clubs delivering the program.
The pupils in attendance were given a quick insight to the Academy, before being put through their paces with a typical Academy warm-up working on reaction and co-ordination. This was then followed by a series of skill demonstrations where the pupils were coached on the basics of footwork and balance, followed by some partner games to put into practice what they had been taught. The session finished off with a fun but boxing specific group game, the response from the pupils was positive and hopefully the visit will have created more interest for the Academy in the Drumchapel area.
ABS 2012 Intermediate Championships
January 25th, 2012
The weekend of 28 and 29 January 2012 will see ABS host its first Championship event of the year. The event will be held at the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, O’Donnell Way, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire ML1 2TZ and is pictured left.
The Intermediate Championship are specifically for those Schoolboy, Junior, Youth and Senior boxers with 7-14 bouts experience. To provide our boxers with a pathway, this event has been rescheduled from April every year to January in order to fit in between the Novice Championships in October and the Open Championship events held over the Feburary/March period.
One hundred and seventeen entries have been received for the event which is an encouraging twenty more than the 2011 number. There age of the boxers will range from 1999 born all the way through to senior level.
The weigh-in will commence at 8.30am sharp and close at 10am on the morning of 28 January 2012. It is anticipated that the event will commence at 12.0opm. There will be two rings in operation – one for Senior Boxers and one for Schoolboy, Junior and Youth Boxers. An announcement will be made during 28 January 2012 as to whether there will be any bouts carried over to Sunday 29 January 2012.
Doors will open at 11.15am for spectators and entry will be strictly pay at the door. Adults will be charged £12 for entry and concession tickets will cost £8 (OAPs and Children under 16).
ABS would like to wish all boxers competing the best of luck in what promises to be an exciting Intermediate championship.
Entry sheets can be found here: 2012 Intermediate entries
To find out more about the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility please click on the following link www.ravenscraig.co.uk/sports_facility.asp
Elite Youth and Senior Training Update
January 24th, 2012Mike Keane, ABS National Coach, reports on another successful set of ABS Youth and Senior Regional training sessions that were held on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 January 2012.
The sessions were well attended with 38 boxers there in total. Thirteen boxers attended the North training in the Byron ABC gym, twelve attend the East training in the Sparta AAC gym and thirteen in the Springhill ABC gym in the West
What was particularly encouraging was there were five coaches in attendance at the North District training session who were all eager to take part and learn. The boxers attending regional sessions are all currently following identical themes each week as the sessions bec0me more frequent.
Due to coaching commitments elsewhere, there will only be one training session this weekend on 29 January 2012. This will be held in the Springhill ABC Gym between 10.00am-12.00pm. Youth and Senior boxers from all districts are welcome to attend.
ABS Development Squad Training – Saturday 28 January 2012
January 23rd, 2012
ABS would like to inform boxers that there will be Development Squad training for all Regions at the Forgewood ABC Gym, Mable Street Motherwell ML1 1TY on Saturday 28 January 2012.
For Boxers born in the years 2000, 1999 and 1998 there will be a weight check at 9.15am and training will commence at 9.30am
For Boxer born in the years 1997 and 1996 there will be a weight check at 10.45am and training will commence at 11.00am.
Danny Lee – Development Squad head of coaching and selection.
