According to a press release by AIBA, the Coaches Committee, Women's Committee and Competitions Committee held their first hybrid meeting on Tuesday where part of the groups registered their presence online.
Coaches Committee
Led by Mr. Ervin Kade, the Coaches Committee held the meeting to discuss a variety of important questions that addressed issues like Safety in boxing, development of the digital scoring system and world ranking systems.
Courses and educational programs for coaches were mentioned to be needing improvement alongwith with the opportunity to start an e-learning system. There was also a plan to build a Code of Conduct for coaches and update the Coaching manual. Other discussions included Fitness and the new competition formats for non-competitive athletes.
“Our main target is to promote coaching, support the foundation of the hall of fame for coaches and athletes. As well as develop coaches certification and e-learning systems. Development of the new coaches courses, such as courses for seconds, personal trainers, boxing instructors, personal trainers. That's for a start,” Mr. Kade said.
The next Coaches Committee meeting is planned for May, 2021.
Women's Committee
The Women's Committee meeting in Kielce featured AIBA Women's Aspire Program as an important point of discussion. It is aimed at promoting, supporting and developing women in boxing to enable them to reach their potential.
The idea behind it is to raise the number of qualified AIBA Women Coaches, R&J’s and ITO’s and to organize courses for them, in order to offer a development to provide the National Federation's boxers an opportunity to be trained by AIBA Coaches.
The presence of Role Models and general visibility of women in AIBA should be attained by actions, including covering them in social media. Also, Training camps for women, consisting of qualified specialists should be established.
The Chairperson of the Women's Committee Mrs. Amanda Coulson commented on the fruitful meeting.
“I was delighted to have 12 out of our 14 members in attendance in person and virtually for our first AIBA Women's Committee meeting. The knowledge, experience, expertise and passion that these committee members bring, I hope, will have a great impact on bridging the gap for gender equality. Some amazing suggestions and ideas discussed today brings me confidence that this Committee can really make a difference. This is just the start of our journey and we want to collaborate with as many people as possible to help promote, develop and grow women in boxing at all levels,” Mrs. Coulson said.
The next meeting of the Women's Committee is scheduled on May 10th, 2021.
Competitions Committee
The Competitions Committee meeting held in Kielce was Chaired by Michael Müller. He said that the Committee began its work successfully.
“The AIBA Competitions Committee held his first joint meeting here in Kielce with 5 members in present and some of them via zoom. Also, the AIBA General Secretary Mr. István Kovács was able to participate at our first meeting. One of the main agenda points was the lifting of the suspension of AIBA by the IOC. For this, we need to restructure and renew the education program and process for AIBA ITO’s, R&J’s, coaches and cutmen, as one of the main tasks. It is also necessary to develop the Rule 20 (Bout Review) as well as to examine the principle of the second chance in boxing. It is our task to ensure that together we are able to offer a fair and transparent work of all AIBA officials (ITO’s and R&J’s) on all competitions worldwide,” claimed Mr. Müller.
The plan for the introduction of an Ombudsman and setting up a whistle-blower hotline along with the compliance hotline of AIBA was discussed along with an overall renovation of the Educational program of AIBA. The Committee plans on revising the Bidding Book and bringing improvement in the bidding process for elite AIBA events.
