From correspondents in Delhi, India, 11:03 AM IST
The Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) is sending a videographer to shoot extensively the bouts involving the likely opponents of the five Indian boxers who qualified for the Beijing Olympics during the President's Cup in Taipei (Taiwan) May 24-June 2.
A team of coaches will go through the video footage shot by videographer Sambhu of the National Institute of Sports, Patiala, and study the technique of the boxers from various countries in detail so as to prepare the five Indians.
All the five Indians -- Vijender Singh, Dinesh Kumar, Akhil Kumar, Jitender Kumar and Antharish Lakra -- will be taking part in the Chinese Taipei event exclusively for the Olympic qualifiers.
'The President's Cup is like a mini Olympics and the Indians should derive maximum benefit from it as all the Olympic qualifiers from the world over will be there. The best way of studying the opponents of the Indians is to get a video of their bouts,' IABF secretary P.K. Muralidharan Raja told IANS, adding that he is awaiting the sports ministry's clearance for the videographer along with the squad.
He said after coming back from the tournament, the coaches and the five boxers would sit together and analyse the video footage.
'This will help them to understand the technical aspects like the footwork and the areas in which their probable opponents are strong or weak,' said Raja.
'We are trying to do everything possible on our part to enhance our medal prospects at the Olympics. We should be able to win a medal or two. ' Raja said.
'We are not looking for any big results from the President's Cup as we want the boxers to peak only towards late July or early August,' he said.
Before Beijing, the Indians will train in Germany with the German boxers in the first week of June and then compete in an international event there.
National coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu is all for taking the videographer as it would help the boxers as well as coaches enormously in preparing for a major event like the Olympics.
'It is a progressive step by the federation and it will be of great help in planning out strategies,' Sandhu said.
Indian boxers have vastly improved after the Athens Olympics and have been highly successful in winning medals at international meets. It is evident from the fact that the boxing squad to the Beijing Olympics is the biggest-ever from India.
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this is very good improvment for indian boxing when i fought they not think this. i As a boxer i sure it will help to imrove and plan oppeant to takle as for his move. i am very confident oue cuban and sandhu, will do success, if they invite me i am also ready to share my experince to our olympic team boxers.
The videos that our boxers (amateur, mature, ..) can see won't contain so many things about the Olympics boxing rivals', such as their daily discipline in terms of diet, exercise and extracurriculars, not to speak of their mindset and their driving philosophy. The boxing tactics/moves as seen in the videos without understanding what is NOT shown by the videos will be of little help,and our performance will continue to nosedive without imbibing these unseen qualities.
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