Profession boxing instructor

Boxing instructors train individuals or groups in boxing. They instruct clients during training and teach students the techniques of boxing such as stance, defense and different kind of punches.

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Personality Type

Knowledge

  • Boxing

    The techniques of boxing related to stance, defense and punches such as jab, uppercut, bobbing and blocking. The rules of the sport and different boxing styles such as slugger and swarmer.

  • Sports ethics

    The ethical considerations in sport activities, policy and management that ensure fair play and sportsmanship in all recreational and competitive sports.

Skills

  • Apply risk management in sports

    Manage the environment and athletes or participants to minimise their chances of suffering any harm. This includes checking appropriateness of venue and equipment and gathering relevant sport and health history from athletes or participants. It also includes ensuring appropriate insurance cover is in place at all times

  • Organise training

    Make the necessary preparations to conduct a training session. Provide equipment, supplies and exercise materials. Ensure the training runs smoothly.

  • Give constructive feedback

    Provide founded feedback through both criticism and praise in a respectful, clear, and consistent manner. Highlight achievements as well as mistakes and set up methods of formative assessment to evaluate work.

  • Instruct in sport

    Provide appropriate technical and tactical instruction related to the given sport using varied and sound pedagogical approaches to meet the needs of the participants and achieve the desired objectives. This requires skills such as communication, explanation, demonstration, modelling, feedback, questioning and correction.

  • Adapt teaching to target group

    Instruct students in the most fitting manner in regards to the teaching context or the age group, such as a formal versus an informal teaching context, and teaching peers as opposed to children.

  • Plan sports instruction programme

    Provide participants with an appropriate programme of activities to support progression to the required level of expertise in the specified time taking into account relevant scientific and sport-specific knowledge.

  • Demonstrate when teaching

    Present to others examples of your experience, skills, and competences that are appropriate to specific learning content to help students in their learning.

Optional knowledge and skills

sport and exercise medicine participate in sport events work with different target groups personalise sports programme motivate in sports sports nutrition exercise sports adjust sporting equipment market trends in sporting equipment

Source: Sisyphus ODB