The second in a series of Paris Wave: High Performance Seminars has taken place in Munster’s Mitchelstown Boxing Club this evening, and was attended by 24 people from 6 boxing clubs in the province.
Paris Wave is designed to support boxers, coaches and clubs, and capitalise on the post-Games renewed interest in boxing created by the 10 strong Team Ireland Boxing and Kellie Harrington’s historic second Olympic gold. Paris Wave has five pillars, encompassing participation growth, safeguarding, women in sport, coach education, and boxer wellbeing.
Led by High Performance Director Tricia Heberle, Head Coach Zauri Antia and Coach Damian Kennedy, the coaching seminar included three key elements:
1. Road to Paris 2024 and Lessons Learned: presentation and Q&A 2. Practical coaching session: led by Head Coach Zauri Antia and the HPU coaches
3. Session/weekly planning workshop: fundamentals of designing a daily programme, building a training week and competition campaign.
The High Performance Unit would extends its heartfelt thanks to Mitchelstown Boxing Club for hosting this evening’s seminar.
On Monday, 34 people from 16 clubs attended the inaugural seminar, hosted by Castlerea BC, in Co. Roscommon – and 10 youth and senior boxers from Connacht clubs participated in the practical session.
Participating Clubs
Mayfield Boxing Club
Mitchelstown Boxing Club
Sliabh Luchra Boxing Club
St. Francis Boxing Club
St. Paul’s Boxing Club
Riverstown Boxing Club
Forthcoming Seminars
Please note that dates and locations for each seminar are in collaboration with the respective provincial unit. Dates and locations for seminars in Leinster and Ulster will be published in due course.
Dublin: The National Stadium, September 23rd, 6pm to 9pm – register here: https://shout.com/s/VtO4MiKu
Paris Wave also includes:
Paris Wave – NextGen This programme will support clubs, financially, in responding to growth in member numbers. IABA will provide support for the provision of 4 training sessions for new members over a 6-week period, beginning in September. All clubs offer training to multiple age groups and clubs are welcome to make Paris Wave – NextGen applications for several training groups. IABA will also be supplying programme-specific materials to each participating club.
Paris Wave – Women in Sport – WIS Conference, August 31st, encompassing workshops on Coaching Teenage Girls, S&C for Female Combat Athletes, and Safeguarding Essentials – a practical session on managing and reporting concerns. This also marks the beginning of a 6-month long arc of WIS learning at in-person events in every province. Paris Wave – Women in Sport will culminate with a conference on International Women’s Day, 2025.
Paris Wave – Coaching: IABA is making 8 additional coaching courses available in this pillar. Four Fundamentals: Assistant Coach courses will enable 80 people to begin their coaching careers in Q4, and Four Level One: Club Coach courses will enable 80 coaches to take the next step in their coaching journeys.
Paris Wave – Safeguarding augments IABA’s existing 2024 Safeguarding learning programme. IABA is providing 20 Safeguarding 1 workshops throughout 2024, and under Paris Wave, has added Safeguarding 2 learning in Q4. These are online events, and open to all Ulster clubs and their members.