Paul Coleman

ABS Ltd will be posting updates on how are boxers are doing at their Malta training camp and then how they perform at the Commonwealth Federation Championships in Delhi which will be held on 10-18 March 2010.

The team arrived safely in its Maltese training base yesterday after leaving Edinburgh at 7.30am following a relatively short flight of 3 hours 20 minutes. After resting yesterday we have been informed that the boxers are all responding well to instructions from the Coaches and Team Management.

The standard of accommodation and transportation is also excellent in Malta. All boxers are also on target for their respective weight targets – This will be the first time our Boxer’s have competed under the new weight categories that will be implemented in September 2010 before the 2010 Commonwealth Games and are 49Kg, 52Kg, 56Kg, 60Kg, 64Kg, 69Kg, 75Kg, 81Kg, 91Kg and 91Kg.

A further update will follow tomorrow.

LBS ltd will be selling various items of branded clothing for the very first time at the second Scottish senior semi-finals which will be held at the Time Capsule on 12 March 2010. Items on sale will be Shirts, Fleeces and Hoodies.

Other items that will be introduced for sale over coming months will be Blazer pins, ties and patches with the updated logo on them. Further details will be post as the items become available.

ABS Ltd hosted the 2010 Scottish Youth and Senior Prelims on 27 February 2010 at Lasswade High School.

The event was was a great success and despite the bad weather conditions there were 56 bouts held over the whole day in the two rings.

Both the Youths and the Seniors provided some very exciting bouts.

The Semi Finals will be held over the next two weekends with the 60Kg, 69kg, 81Kg and 91+ Kg bouts along with a Senior 75Kg Quarter Final being contested on 05 March 2010 at the Treetops Hotel in Aberdeen.

The 54Kg, 57Kg, 64Kg 75Kg, and 91Kg bouts will be contested the following weekend on 12 March 2010 at the Time Capsule sports center in Coatbridge.

A full list of results from the weekend can be found in documents section of the website.

Please note that the 54Kg Semi Finals that were scheduled to held at the Treetops Semi Final in Aberdeen on 05 March 2010 have now been moved to the second Semi Finals that will be held in the the Time Capsule in Coatbridge on 12 March 2010.

The Programme for the Semi Finals in Aberdeen can be downloaded from the documents section also.

ABS Ltd held its first ever R&J consultation meeting on 21 February 2010. This was a very well attended meeting that showed there was huge support for modernisation of our referees and judges.

It was noted that there is much work to be done with the development of referees and judges in Scotland and the board see this as one of the key developments in Scotland. No consultation meetings have been held in the past and this meeting was seen as the way forward in showing the pathway for our referees and judges.

ABS Technical Director Andy Caulfield will collate feedback from the meeting and will produce a strategic plan for the board that will detail how ABS Ltd will improve its current R&J function.

Overall there was a great reponse from the volunteers that attended the consultation who found the day very informative.
It was explained that this is a transitional period for ABS Ltd and that the strategic plan for R&J will co-incide with the build up to Glasgow 2014

It was also noted that ABS Ltd’s key investor sportscotland was very supportive of the development of R&J as volunteer development is key target area of the ABS Ltd strategic plan.

A brief job description for a Women’s Development role can now be found in the documents section of the site. The closing date for applications is 15 March 2010.  Please send all applications to the following address – ABS Ltd, C/O Incovo Ltd, 5 Nasmyth Court,  Livingston, EH54 5EG

ABS is extending the application period for the post of National Coach to 18 March 2010. The documents can be found in the downloads section of the website.