In this video interview, Rob McCracken, Performance Director of GB Boxing shares his unique insight and thoughts on the current state of Team GB Boxing for 2012 and beyond.
As the man accountable for everything including GB Boxing’s Olympic programme, Rob heads a team of coaches and is ultimately responsible for identifying and recruiting new talent to the attainment of medals at future championships.
A former amateur GB boxer winning a World Cup Silver Medal in 1990, Rob knows what it takes to compete and win on the amateur stage and move through the professional ranks.
Rob shares his thoughts on preparation and qualification and why it’s vital to have a strong work ethic.
Make sure you get Rob’s key points below after you watch the video
Key points and interview highlights
- It’s not easy to prepare boxers for what lies ahead
- Your fate is always in your own hands
- Why boxing’s an individual sport
- The importance of teamwork
- Why competition matters
- Why it’s important to create pressure
- There’s no substitute for hard work
- Why winning medals matters
Summary
It’s a real individual sport but we have a great atmosphere here. We have a great team, a real good bunch, nice kids, very friendly with each other.
They understand that boxing’s a sport and that they compete with each other and they need the competition to push them on.
It’s proven in the past that if you have one boxer at a weight they don’t appear to be as on it as the other boxers who are competing with boxers almost as good as them at their weight.
So you need to create the competition and the pressure but we have a great team, and they get along with each other, they respect each other and they work alongside each other and obviously they want to get picked for any major tournament, that’s coming up and that’s their job is to prove it by being successful in tournaments.
All of these major tournaments are very tough, other countries are very strong as well, but you know we’ve worked hard over the last couple of years, the boxers have worked really well, the coaches, the support staff, and everyone’s worked hard.
We’ve achieved tremendous results which are really promising and we want to win as many medals as possible. We‘ve got a great team, great boxers. GB boxing’s on the up and it’s doing great and I’m sure we’ll have got a great future.
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