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Australian
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The Australian Academy of Boxing Coach is Dereck Herbert who has
participated in boxing orientated sports and fitness for over 45
years. Dereck provides us with his experience, knowledge and
insights regarding techniques and skills that enhance performance.
Whether you are just starting out or have had many years of previous
experience the step by step basic, intermediate, and advanced
information, video clips, and equipment advice will help guide your
own personal sports and fitness journey.
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Australian
Academy of Boxing Coach
Dereck Herbert
Dereck 1967
Australian
Golden Gloves
Light-Welterweight Champion
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Background
Dereck Herbert comes from a family
with an extensive background in the sport of Boxing and
personally competed in England and Australia over a period of 13
years. His dad Sidney Herbert was a London amateur champion, his
uncle Will killed in 1915 at the first battle of Ypres in World
War 1 was an Army Boxing Champion of India, and his uncle Joe
not only brought up British Champions Harry and Dicky Corbett
but his son Harry was also a top professional in the 1950's.
In 1970 Harry went to see Dereck
box in a return bout against English International Tony Tacchi
after the ring doctor had put him out of the final of the
English ABA Divisional Championships on a cut eye.
Dereck was looking forward to reversing that result having just
come off beating both English Army finalist Tommy Baker and
Irish International Micky Foley but Tacchi never showed and
Harry never saw him box.
Dereck first began boxing in
England and then after moving to Australia boxed on the
innaugral 1967 Channel Nine televised Australian Golden Gloves
Boxing. Appearing on the first two Golden Gloves telecasts he
took out the Best Boxer Award on both occasions. The
championships starting shortly after were open to
all-comers as a lead up to the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games
and in a vintage year of boxing Channel Nine flew the best
boxers into Melbourne from all over Australia.
Dereck received a walkover
against the Tasmanian Champion, beat the Queensland Champion by
a whisker, picked up another Best Boxer Award in out-punching
the Victorian Champion in a Semi-final shoot-out, and then beat
South Australianin Champion Tony Smith
to win the Light-Welterweight Crown.
All good things come to an end
and Dereck lost on points in the final of the 1968 televised
Mexico Olympic Trials, but as he said to the newspaper reporters
a couple of years later when a cut eye cost him a fighting
chance at the English ABA Crown -
"that's the way the cookie crumbles". |
Dereck swapped his competition
gloves for trainers garb in 1976 gaining wider boxing experience
over the years with stints as Coach//Manager of the
Victorian State Boxing Team, Australian National Coaching Executive
Officer, Judge and Referee. In 1990 he founded the Australian
Academy of Boxing, where Boxacise® was born, to provide Boxing
and Boxacise(Boxercise) training that has raised the worldwide
general publics awareness to the cross training benefits of
boxing orientated exercise participation.
Dereck has coached thousands of participants attending Boxacise®
Level 1 Coach Accreditation Courses, and A.A.B. Golden Gloves Boxing®
-White Collar Boxing® Inter-Club Competition Workshops.
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