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ABAP
sets gab on
amateur
boxing
The
Amateur Boxing Association of the Philippines (ABAP)
will hold a seminar-workshop on amateur boxing
this Feb. 23-25 at the Virac Sports Center in a
bid to raise local standards.
Co-sponsored
by the municipal government of Virac, Asian
Spirit Airlines, DILG, DECS, and the PNP, the
three-day provincial seminar-workshop will focus
on the training and coaching of amateur boxers
as well as refereeing and judging amateur bouts.
ABAP
Catanduanes Chapter president Roberto P. Rodulfo
told the Tribune that international
referee-judge and Asian Boxing Federation member
Arturo G. Vidal, Jr. and ABAP national pool
coach/trainor Glicerio Catolico, Jr. will be
handle the lectures, to be capped by an actual
demonstration of refereeing and judging at Plaza
Rizal. He said he is not discounting the
possibility that ABAP president Manny Lopez
might honor the invitation tendered to him by
the organizers.
Municipal
mayors, Sangguniang Kabataan chairmen, and
physical education teachers specializing in
boxing have been invited to attend the workshop
in order to keep them abreast with the latest
skills and knowledge essential in the promotion
of the sport in this province, where many have
potentials to emulate, if not surpass, world
titlists Dondon Concepcion of San Andres and
Orlando Villaflor of Bagamanoc.
Former
NTC Commissioner Joseph Santiago has reportedly
lent his support for the move to promote amateur
boxing in the province. Last year during the
heavily-attended Bakbakan sa Virac, the
corporate lawyer from Virac, who is set to run
for Congress this May elections, vowed to
spearhead Catanduanes' return to the top of the
sporting world in Bicol after languishing at the
cellar for more than a decade now.
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