Badener AC Boxen

About Badener AC Boxen

The boxing section of the Badener Athletiksport Club (BAC) teaches Olympic boxing under the IBA competition rules, along with fitness boxing and functional bodyweight training. Training takes place at the Sportcenter Baden, Hall B, Waltersdorfer Straße 40, opposite the Landesklinikum – for children from about the age of ten and for adults of any age.

Training times

• Monday, 17:00–18:00: children's training (about 10 to 15 years)
• Monday, 18:30–20:00: conditioning, strength and fitness
• Wednesday, 18:30–20:00: adults and advanced, focus on boxing technique
• Friday, 17:00–18:00: children's training (about 10 to 15 years)
• Friday, 18:30–20:00: adults and advanced, boxing and sparring

There is no training on public holidays or during a summer break; the current breaks are listed on the club's news page.

Olympic boxing from the ground up

Training uses the punchbag, the speed ball and similar equipment, plus simple partner exercises. Sparring is available for advanced boxers and anyone who wants to compete – how far you go is up to you. At the start, ordinary training clothes and indoor shoes are enough, hand wraps are a plus; later you will need boxing gloves, a gum shield and a skipping rope.

• Membership: only club members can train
• Trial session: possible once; bring the completed form "Erklärung Gesundheitszustand" (download on the website)
• Sparring and bouts: only with a medical certificate and ID

Fitness boxing and bodyweight training

Fitness boxing, known in the USA as "White Collar Boxing", is a mixed group from beginners to advanced who box as a way to balance out everyday life: warm-up and mobilisation, strength exercises using your own body weight, punch combinations with a partner and work on the heavy bag.

If you want to get fit without boxing, try the bodyweight and functional training: exercises using your own body weight, flexibility, elements of weightlifting and endurance sport, with every session led by a coach.

• Times: Tuesday 19:30–20:30 and Thursday 18:00–19:00, Sport- und Veranstaltungshalle Baden
• Price: block of 10 60 euros (according to the website, no date given)
• Trial session: free, just come along at the training times

The coaches

Chairman Mathias Skorpil-Kastner is a boxing instructor with a B licence, a PE teacher at BHAK Baden and a personal coach. He is joined by Johannes Amon (boxing instructor, B licence), Sandro Zahirovic (instructor with a C licence, in the club since 2011, three light-heavyweight bouts for the BAC) and Andreas Heido (C licence) as coaches for children and young people.

In the ring since 1947

Badener AC was founded in 1899. Two years after the end of the war, pre-war boxers founded a boxing club, which joined the BAC in May 1949. From 1957 until his death in 2016, Peter Podliska, a state champion and representative boxer, led the club as coach. According to the club's history, this period brought more than 40 state championship titles, four Austrian runner-up places and one national youth championship title; the club names as its highlight the bronze medal in the super-heavyweight division at the Olympic Games in Seoul, won by Zarenkiewicz.

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Contact

Badener AC – Zweigverein Boxen, Sportcenter Baden, Hall B, Waltersdorfer Straße 40, 2500 Baden. Chairman Mathias Skorpil-Kastner, phone 0699 12340107, e-mail office@boxenbaden.at. The club answers questions about equipment and getting started via this contact address.

Automatically translated from German.

Compiled by our editorial team.