Ninvalle organises virtual boxing seminar for coaches

Steve Ninvalle, Chairman of the Caribbean Steering Committee for Boxing, has organised a virtual seminar for coaches. The seminar will be conducted on September 20th by the respected Chairman of the AIBA Referees/Judges Commission, American Ray Silvas.

Ninvalle explained that Silvas would be working with Caribbean coaches to update them on what referees and judges look for during fights.
“We think it is important for our coaches to be equipped with the knowledge of how judges score fights, and what are considered infringements by the referee. Many coaches are not fully aware of some of these rules, which can result in an ‘unconscious’ defeat of our boxers,” Ninvalle has said.
This is the third such seminar to be organised by Ninvalle in a short span of time. Silvas has, just last weekend, completed a two-day seminar for referees and judges from the English-speaking Caribbean, Haiti, Curacao and Suriname. Over one hundred and fifty officials participated in the event, which marked the largest gathering of Caribbean referees and judges ever.
As Vice President of the 43-nation Americas Boxing Confederation, Ninvalle had in July organised a virtual seminar for coaches in the English-speaking Caribbean, and that seminar was conducted by Puerto Rican Jose Lauren. Eighty officials from the Caribbean had participated.