Cares South Africa Boxing Clinic

The WBC South Africa Cares hosted a boxing clinic at the refurbished Booysens Gym managed and efficiently run by Riaz Bhyat.

This was to allow young aspiring athletes the opportunity to train guided by  experienced coaches and in the presence of professional boxers. The clinic enables the athletes  to learn and experience high level training methods and techniques and at the same time train in an environment that recognises their desires and commitment as individuals to the sport of boxing within the family of the WBC.

The clinic was attended by more than fifty participants both men and women ranging in ages from ten to forty and from beginners to accomplished amateurs.

The participants were split into groups based on their experience and allocated trainers who put the participants through a number of different training sessions – technique, foot work, defence, fitness, mental skill and discipline methods and sparring and pad work.

The coaching team was led by Mannie Fernandez who has trained eight former world champions assisted by Laduma Lamati (ranked eight in the WBC super bantamweight division) and Joshua Studdard an exciting young professional boxer.

Further clinics will be held throughout the country to further grow the sport and to enable young aspiring boxers the opportunity to participate and gain recognition and to join the enabling environment that the WBC Cares program represents throughout the world.

Brad Dayan Norman

WBC Cares South Africa