ABS successfully hosted these two days for its coaches and R&J over the weekend.
The coaches general meeting was held on Saturday 31 July 2010 and was very well received with 35 coaches in attendance.
Willie Burns, director of Coach Education, gave the coaches an update on the status of the United Kingdom Coaching Certificate (UKCC). This will be implemented in October 2010 and ABS will identify and qualify a number of tutors to deliver UKCC courses in Scotland.
A discussion followed on the re-establishment of an ABS Ltd Youth Development Commission and all the coaches in attendance agreed this was a positive move that will move the sport forward.
Andy Caulfield held a brief session on how R&J can effect a coach and a boxer the purpose of this was to allow the coaches have a say on the current R&J and for Andy to explain how ABS Ltd is creating a pathway for R&J that will improve the level and increase the number of R&J in Scotland.
Pat McCrory, our guest speaker for the weekend, then explained the R&J changes AIBA will be making and how it will now be grading coaches on a one, two and three star basis.
Lunch was served at one oclock then the afternoon session consisted of a coaching commission discussion which saw the coaches break into teams.
There was then feedback gathered on the group discussions then a brief Q&A session was held.
The coaches all said they enjoyed the day, it was informative and were very appreciative that ABS Ltd gave them the chance to be heard and voice their opinions.
Sunday 01 August 2010
36 referees and Judges were in attendance for the R&J workshop.
The day commenced with a presentation from ABS Ltds Andy Caulfield Andy highlighted ABS Ltds plans for advancing R&J in Scotland and how those plans would be delivered. He also went on to explain the structure of the R&J commission and how it would operate in future.
Our guest speaker, Mr Pat McCrory, then spoke on the ongoing development of R&J through AIBA. Pat was keen to enforce a number of messages during his presentation Referees and Judges should believe in themselves, think they are the best and enjoy refereeing and judging he had once seen someone crying about a wrong decision!.
Pat also explained the protocol scoring system used by AIBA, explained that cheating in Amateur Boxing was not extinct and offered his services to train ABS Ltds computer operators on the AIBA computer system and then split the groups for a practical.
All R&J were then asked to complete a code of conduct document and provide their contact details to allow ABS compile a R&J database. Fourteen of the attendees also volunteered to be team managers and travel with ABS Ltd teams.
The practical involved groups of R&J watching bouts from the 2009 World Championships in Milan The object was to identify what our R&J thought a scoring blow was. The score on the screen was covered up and everyone was given clickers. The R&J were then asked to score various bouts and see how closely they were to the actual score.
Lunch was served at 1pm then Pat McCrory then gave a presentation on the AIBA Referees and Judges training manual similar to the one he gave at the 2009 World Championships in Milan.
Following that the attendees completed the refresher exam and everybody felt they had learned and taken away a lot of new knowledge from the day. The attendees were very appreciative of Pat McCrory too.
ABS would like to thank everyone for attending and look forward to hosting future events.
