The Paris Wave: High Performance seminar came to Derry today, and was attended by club members from Derry, Sligo, Dublin, Tyrone and Donegal.
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 Head Coach Zauri Antia, Coach Damian Kennedy, Coach James Doyle, and Ulster High Performance Manager Aimee Shiels, today’s seminars include 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.
12 clubs and 27 people took part in today’s event – kindly hosted by Oakleaf Boxing Club. High Performance Unit extends its thanks to the club for it’s hospitality.
Participating Clubs
Oakleaf BC, Derry
Ballymote BC, Sligo
Ballinacarrow BC, Sligo
The Ring ABC, Derry
Dungloe BC, Donegal
Derryveagh BC, Donegal
Duke’s BC, Tyrone
St. Joseph’s BC, Derry
Nutgrove BC, Dublin
Illies Golden Gloves BC, Donegal
Two Castles Olympic Boxing Club, Tyrone
Carrickmore ABC, Tyrone
This was the fourth seminar to take place in the Paris Wave series – 16 clubs, 34 coaches and 10 boxers attended the Connacht event hosted by Castlerea Boxing Club on September 17th, and 24 people from 6 boxing clubs attended the Munster event, hosted by Mitchelstown BC on September 18th. 21 clubs and 34 people participated in the seminar at the National Stadium on September 23rd.
The High Performance Unit also held coach development seminars earlier this year, in Belfast in January as part of a High Performance sparring camp, and Castlerea in April as parting of the Ireland V Ukraine dual nations and camp.
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.