THE DONARD METHOD. FOR BOXING COACHES.
Throwing The Punch Is Easy.
Teaching It Isn't.
In 90 days you walk out with your own 6 week programme, built with me, that you can run straight away.
Every week you send me 5 minutes of you coaching. I send back exactly what to fix.
20 years in boxing clubs. Day-one beginners to world champions.
20 years in boxing clubs. Day-one beginners to world champions.
You can throw a clean combination yourself, but the moment you have to teach one you freeze. A system fixes that.
The Donard Method. 90 days, three blocks. Teach it. Train it. Deliver it.
Most coaching stalls because there's no system behind it. These three blocks give you one. Here's exactly how it runs.
What To Teach
We focus on what to teach. Everything from your footwork, your defence, your punches and your combinations, broken down the way I'd coach it to a new client. That way you'll know exactly what to say, in what order, and what matters.
How To Train It
We cover how to actually train it. Individual drills, partner drills, bag work and pad work. I'll give you a full toolkit to take a real session from a warm-up to a cool down, without just filling time or constantly repeating yourself.
How To Deliver It
This is when it all comes together. Structuring your classes, building six-week blocks, and managing everyone from beginners to advanced and mixed abilities. We create your own six-week program to take clients through, so they see the progression for themselves. That's what keeps them coming back.
What you actually get:
A one to one strategy call with Donard on day one. Where you are, where you are stuck, what the 90 days looks like for you.
A direct WhatsApp line to Donard for 90 days. Ask anything, any time.
Weekly clip review and check in. You film 5 minutes of you coaching. Donard sends back what to fix and checks your worksheet.
A monthly group feedback video. Donard reviews clips from the group and sends the recording to everyone.
A one to one Zoom with Donard at day 90. You plan your own 6 week programme together and leave ready to run it.
Weekly tutorial videos and worksheets. The homework you work through with your own clients.
One week on the programme
Monday: your tutorial videos and worksheet for the week land in the Skool classroom
Through the week: you work through them with your own clients.
Friday: you send Donard 5 minutes of you coaching, on WhatsApp.
Weekend: Donard sends back what to fix and checks your worksheet.
Once a month: a group feedback video where Donard reviews clips from the group.
Day 1 and day 90: a one to one call with Donard.
I'm not teaching theory from a textbook. This is 20 years in boxing clubs, broken down for you.
I've spent the last 20 years in boxing clubs and the last 12 coaching, working with everyone from day-one beginners to multiple world champions. This is what actually works on the gym floor.
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World Champions Coached
100+
Novice Fighters Taken To Champions
20 YRS
In Boxing Clubs
100+
Novice Fighters Taken To Champions
20 YRS
In Boxing Clubs
12 YRS
Coaching
Why The Best Fighters Don't Always Make The Best Coaches
Here's something nobody tells you when you start coaching. Being able to fight and being able to teach are two completely different things.
Sometimes the best fighters found the technique easy themselves, so they struggle to break it down, slow it down, and get it across. And that's where most coaching careers stall. Not because of a lack of effort, not because they don't love the sport, but because they don't have the right systems in place to coach and to keep progressing.
Maybe you can throw a clean combination yourself. You've watched every YouTube video on technique. But the moment you have to coach a complete beginner, you start second-guessing yourself.
You're not the only one, and it's completely fixable.
Never Had A Fight? You Can Still Coach This.
Not every coach came through the ring. Plenty of the coaches I talk to never had a fight. They started in a fitness boxing class, or they'd been training in a club for years and one day the coach asked them to take the warm-up, then the beginners, then the whole session.
If that's you, there's usually one thing sitting in the back of your head. Who am I to be teaching this? You're waiting for the day a lad walks in who's had ten amateur fights and asks you something you can't answer.
Here's the thing. You don't need a fight record to teach a jab. You need to know what a good jab looks like, what goes wrong with it, and what to say to fix it. That can be learned. And you've got one thing over the ex-fighters. It never came easy to you, so you remember what it's like to not know. That's half of coaching right there.
The Donard Method gives you the other half. What to teach, how to train it, how to deliver it. Same programme, same access to me, whether you've had fifty fights or none.
The fighters I built with The Donard Method. Two of them now coach with it.
Founding intake. These are the fighters I built with The Donard Method. Now I'm handing it to coaches.
"I have so much confidence in my own coaching ability that I can take anyone off the street and build them from the ground up. A lot of that came from Donard."
Paddy McCorry, Cage Warriors Middleweight World Champion, now coaching
"His systems are absolutely unmatched. Once you know them, they never leave you."
Paul Hughes, professional MMA fighter, Former Cage Warriors World Champion
"A top coach who can pass on fantastic knowledge to upcoming coaches."
Michael Conlon, Olympic bronze medallist
"Once he teaches you, you could go and teach that thing to anyone. It's so simple and so easy to understand."
Niall McGreevy, #1 ranked Muay Thai fighter in the world
"I've learned a lot from Donard for my own fights, but also for coaching the people I coach."
Garrett Smylie, professional Muay Thai fighter and coach
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who is this programme for?
Two types of coach. The new coach who wants to understand the fundamentals of boxing coaching and take them to the gym floor. And the more experienced coach who's found themselves standing in front of a class or a one-to-one, struggling with what to do for the next hour. If that's you, this is for you. And it doesn't matter whether you've had fights yourself. Plenty of the coaches I work with never have.
2. I can box, but I freeze when it comes to teaching. Is that normal?
Completely. Being able to fight and being able to teach are two completely different things. The best fighters don't always make the best coaches, because the technique came easy to them and they struggle to break it down for someone else. You're not the only one, and it's fixable.
3. How is the programme structured?
The Donard Method is 90 days, broken into three blocks. Block one is what to teach: footwork, defence, punches and combinations, broken down the way I'd coach a new client. Block two is how to train it: individual drills, partner drills, bag work and pad work. Block three is how to deliver it: structuring classes, building 6-week blocks, and managing beginners through to advanced.
4. How does it actually run week to week?
Monday your tutorial videos and worksheet for the week land in the Skool classroom. Through the week you work through them with your own clients. Friday you send me 5 minutes of you coaching on WhatsApp. Over the weekend I send back what to fix and check your worksheet. Once a month I send the group a feedback video, and you get a one to one call with me on day 1 and day 90.
5. How is it delivered? Are there live calls?
Two one to one calls with me on Zoom: a strategy call on day 1 and a planning call on day 90 where we build your 6 week programme. Everything else runs on Skool and WhatsApp. Your videos and worksheets are in the Skool classroom. Your clips and my feedback are on WhatsApp, and once a month I send everyone a group feedback video.
6. How many people are on it?
I only open the programme to 10 coaches each time. That way I can work with everyone individually and give you the feedback you actually need, rather than just generating content. Doors close on 5th October. When the 8 remaining spots are gone, the next intake is after this 90 days, and the price will be higher.
7. Do I need to be an experienced coach already?
No. Whether you're a complete beginner to coaching or you've got some experience and have hit a wall, the programme meets you where you are and builds your systems from the ground up.
8. How much is it?
The 90 day programme is £799 upfront, or 2 payments of £425. After the 90 days you can join my Skool group for £49 a month to keep developing, but your coaching system is built across the 90 days. Prices go up after the first intake.
9. What happens after the 90 days?
You will have your own 6 week programme built and a full system to coach and progress your clients. From there you can join my Skool group for £49 a month to keep developing, or take what you have built and run with it.
10. What if it doesn't work for me?
Do the work and you leave with your programme. Attend both calls, send your clip every week, do your worksheets. If you get to day 90 without your own 6 week programme built and ready to run, I keep working with you until it is. No extra charge.
PAST SUCCESSES
Ready to run The Donard Method in your gym?
Apply now and in 90 days you will have your own 6 week programme, built with Donard, ready to run.
THE GUARANTEE
Do the work and you leave with your programme. Attend both calls, send your clip every week, do your worksheets. If you get to day 90 without your own 6 week programme built and ready to run, I keep working with you until it is. No extra charge.
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