The picture above is of an old school ABA coaching patch, issued in the early 1980s. It’s somewhere around 40 years old.

Personal boxing clients should not settle for a cookie-cutter approach. Insist on a bespoke training schedule that fits your goals, attributes and skillset.

One of my favourite parts of coaching is talking boxing with my clients.

Flow is the Holy Grail of the skilful combat athlete. The ecstatic feeling when everything kicks into place only comes so often. When it does, it is magical.

An understanding of how a corner should work before, during and after a contest.

Understand how and why we learn and practice boxing skills and technique.

In the past, only the boxing elite had access to video analysis. Now anyone with a smartphone does. Like the mirror, video is our ally and can provide a treasure trove of priceless data.

I’m all for innovation and progression. But we’re in danger of shovelling a large and precious diamond into the skip with the rough. That diamond is the old-school training methods available to us all for free.

You can't train children as you would adults. They are a work in progress and stand at an important stage of life. Treat them with care. It's not only their physical development at stake.