Training Tips
How to Check a Boxing Coach's DBS Status
Before your child trains with any boxing coach in the UK, you have a right to know they hold a valid enhanced DBS check. Here is exactly how to verify it.
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How to Report a Safeguarding Concern at a Boxing Club
If something feels wrong at a boxing club your child attends, knowing exactly who to contact and what to say makes a significant difference. This is the process.
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Safeguarding in Boxing: What Parents Should Know
Every boxing club working with children in the UK should meet minimum safeguarding standards. Most parents do not know what those standards are or how to check them.
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Boxing Personal Training vs Teaching Yourself to Box
Can you teach yourself to box from YouTube? What self-taught boxing gets wrong, and when you need a real coach. An honest assessment.
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Core Exercises for Boxing: What Actually Builds Punching Power
Core strength is where boxing power comes from. These are the core exercises that actually transfer to the ring - and the ones that waste your time.
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How to Become a Boxing Coach in the UK
Boxing coaching in the UK is licensed and structured. Here is exactly how the pathway works, what each level means, and what it takes to qualify.
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How Boxing Judging Works: Why Decisions Sometimes Confuse Everyone
Boxing scoring is simpler than it looks but produces controversy because reasonable people see the same fight differently. Here is how it actually works.
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How to Choose a Boxing Personal Trainer in the UK
What to look for in a boxing personal trainer, what qualifications actually mean, and the questions to ask before booking your first session.
Community
Off the Ropes: Boxing and Mental Health in Abbey Wood
Off the Ropes is a mental health charity in Abbey Wood running non-contact boxing programmes on NHS wards and in their own gym. Founded by a former professional boxer and NHS occupational therapist.
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How Boxing Builds Resilience in Children: What the Research
Resilience is one of the most valuable things we can help children develop. Boxing builds it through specific mechanisms that other activities do not replicate as effectively.
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The Double End Bag Guide
The double end bag builds timing, reflexes and head movement that no other bag can. Here is what it does, who it is for, and how to actually use it.
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Easter Holiday Activities for Kids in SE London 2026
Easter 2026 runs from 28 March to 13 April. Here is what is on for children across Greenwich, Woolwich, Eltham, and Kidbrooke, including some options you will not find elsewhere.
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