Talking about how to become a good trainer, some boxers, without batting an eye, argue that it is very easy to do it. Like, it's enough to be knocked out five times, and you are a ready coach. As you know, every joke contains some truth. The latter consists, in particular, in the fact that without your own performances in the ring and colossal personal experience, it is difficult to train other boxers, and not very possible.
Education or diploma
The first thing a future boxing coach should think about (and one should start with working in a general group, and not personally with some single lover of the ring and gong): how to get an appropriate education. To begin with, of course, you need to graduate from high school, preferably in parallel with specialized sports, becoming at least a candidate for master of sports. After that, it is desirable to enroll in a physical education or pedagogical, but having a sports faculty, a university, in which to try to get, albeit formally, a higher education.
Why "formal"? It's just that it's not a secret for anybody for a long time that active professional athletes have practically no time, energy, and sometimes the desire for full and stable study. Therefore, they usually hand over term papers and even theses, with the consent of the teachers, not during the official sessions, but when the off-season comes or there is a need to heal the injury. Or generally after the end of the career of an active athlete and many years after admission. For example, the ex-world champion among amateurs and professionals Konstantin Tszyu, who recently became the coach of the world heavyweight champion according to one of the professional versions of Denis Lebedev.
Of course, entering a university, an academy, or at least a physical education college, a potential coach must choose his own, boxing specialization. Although, perhaps, there are unique people in the world who are able to train brutal boxers, having graduated from the Youth Sports School, a youth sports school in chess or figure skating. Trying to get the necessary diploma, do not forget about your own trainings and fights, about improving your boxing skills and intelligence. After all, numerous anecdotes about supposedly stupid boxers who use their heads only for eating and wearing a helmet in the ring are nothing more than sarcasm. Moreover, it is often stated by the boxers themselves.
Master of Sport
Eighteen years is the age not only for entering the university and receiving a summons to the army, but also for the transition of an athlete from youth to adult sport with much more stringent requirements for the level of skill. A junior who wants to subsequently teach others is required to go through an adult boxing school. First of all, of course, at official competitions not lower than the national championship, becoming at least a master of sports. By the way, having achieved such a sports title, but not having a diploma of higher education, you can also count on employment as a coach. For example, in some small village or in a club without any special pretensions, where a potential coach's lack of a certificate of education may be condescending.
Both teacher and psychologist
But to become a good trainer in a professional sports club or even in a simple section for novice boxers who only dream of the glory of Tszyu and Lebedev, one delivered blow is not enough. Although the presence, for example, of an excellent "jab", which the legendary Muhammad Ali masterly wielded, is also important. A real specialist must also be an outstanding teacher, methodologist, educator, psychologist, possess at least minimal medical knowledge, the ability to understand the degree of talent of a young boxer training with him, sensitivity, attentiveness, patience and even a sense of humor.
So, according to the two-time Olympic medalist, Honored Master of Sports Viktor Rybakov, one of his trainers, ex-European boxing champion Viktor Ageev, literally shocked the athlete in one of the fights. In particular, the fact that during the break between the rounds did not begin to say anything about the tactics and strategy of the fight, did not begin to analyze mistakes, give clever advice and urge to "hit harder", but simply told a funny anecdote. After that Rybakov, who burst out laughing and received positive emotions, literally carried his opponent out of the ring, having won a landslide victory.
Coaching categories
If athletes receive grades and titles, then coaches are professional categories. Possessing them, they acquire the opportunity to work with the appropriate group of boxers, from beginners to members of the national team. There are four such categories in Russia. Primary - just a coach, a recent graduate of a physical education college, university or special courses. The second is a coach, whose pupils have won medals at all-Russian competitions and the title of candidates for master of sports. The first one is a coach of winners and prize-winners of national championships and championships who have received certificates of masters of sports. Higher - a coach trained at the Higher Coaching School, who has worked for many years and has trained champions or prize-winners of the European, World and Olympic Championships, who have become international masters of sports and honored masters. In addition, such specialists are also awarded, as a rule, the titles of honored trainers of the country.
