A Bowling Green boxing coach wants to create new opportunities for anyone in the world to learn the sport.
Chadrick Wigle runs a small gym in Bowling Green called BGKY Boxing, and is the coach of the Western Kentucky University intramural boxing team. He says he wants to connect with anybody who would like to learn the basics of the sport known as “the sweet science.”
So he’s put online about 100 free videos he recorded of practices featuring WKU boxing club members.
“We filmed every practice of WKU since March 16th, and we put them up online,” Wigle told WKU Public Radio. “That way anybody who wants to learn boxing, all they have to do is grab their brother, cousin, sister, Dad, go to the garage, and do the same drills they’re doing.”
Wigle says the videos he posts differ from much of what is found elsewhere on the internet. He says his goal was to provide an unfiltered view of what it’s like to learn boxing fundamentals.
“If you watch YouTube, and different videos, it’s people taking their ideal students and ideal athletes, and seeing the perfect combination done a hundred times over. This is not that—this is just real.”
Wigle says he hopes to have 10 to 12 WKU club boxers ready to compete at a national boxing competition later this year in Virginia.
