No boxing requirement for female cadets?

Old Navy BGO said:
As noted above, Boxing class isn't about turning you into boxers, but rather to instill confidence under pressure. Navy also included Boxing in the Aviation Indoctrination curriculum in Pcola as well...same rationale.
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I'm not sure I agree with the statement that a short boxing class will instill confidence under pressure. I personally feel there are much better martial arts to teach to instill confidence. DS wrestled for 14 years, 2 years in college. A Striker will last about as long as it takes a wrestler to get inside. For a skilled wrestler, that's about half a second and your on the ground with a dislocated elbow. I enjoy boxing, took years of practice. I disagree that you should put novices in a ring, and let them throw fists at each other without proper training and practice, and that takes substantially more than a semester. Hitting someone with a 14ounce glove is very different than hitting someone bare knuckled. I could go on ad nauseam.
 
I think we box 3/C year at USNA now. It’s mostly fundamentals, foot work, different strikes. Paired up by weight and a short 2 minute or so bout. As mentioned, any agreements go fast. I really think it’s to teach someone that you can get hit in the face and be fine, to push yourself mentally and learn some fundamentals. It’s not meant to make you a pro boxer. It’s meant to be a building block to pushing yourself. Combative as a whole are a part of most services training. It builds upon this and gives Mids an intro. Any Mids on the boxing team were excluded from boxing us regular Mids.
 
“Female cadets here take Introduction to Combatives, PE 114, and male cadets take Boxing, PE 110. In boxing, cadets must complete 10 hours, eight lessons and two graded reviews to pass the course.”

https://www.usafa.af.mil/News/Featu...-with-courage-resiliency-to-finish-the-fight/

“Specifically for female cadets, I think boxing helps us be more confident since we're constantly surrounded by men," Lowe said. "Male cadets take Boxing, PE 110, here; the club gives females the ability to try out boxing and get a similar experience."

https://www.usafa.af.mil/News/Featu...ub-allows-female-cadets-to-excel-in-the-ring/


These make me think females are not required/allowed to take boxing.
 
xray328 said:
“Female cadets here take Introduction to Combatives, PE 114, and male cadets take Boxing, PE 110. In boxing, cadets must complete 10 hours, eight lessons and two graded reviews to pass the course.”

https://www.usafa.af.mil/News/Featu...-with-courage-resiliency-to-finish-the-fight/

“Specifically for female cadets, I think boxing helps us be more confident since we're constantly surrounded by men," Lowe said. "Male cadets take Boxing, PE 110, here; the club gives females the ability to try out boxing and get a similar experience."

https://www.usafa.af.mil/News/Featu...ub-allows-female-cadets-to-excel-in-the-ring/


These make me think females are not required/allowed to take boxing.
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I believe that this has changed since this article was posted in 2015.

https://www.usafa.af.mil/USAFANews/Article/966321/boxing-instills-warrior-mindset-at-academy/
 
NavyHoops said:
Any Mids on the boxing team were excluded from boxing us regular Mids.
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Plebe summer, my partner was a companymate who didn't catch on with any of the other plebe summer sports and ended up in boxing. When we finally got to boxing intro in plebe summer Phys Ed, he'd already had a few weeks of training and thus knew far more than I. He was having a very tough time with plebe summer and I guess that I was his outlet. Now this was a VERY unathletic guy so it wasn't terrible but still, we were supposed to be just trading jabs (boxing lesson number 1) and he was doing a lot more than we'd been shown. Finally, I put a stop to it and my companymates still bring it up from time to time.
 
Plebe Summer we boxed maybe 1 hour is so. Academic year it was a half semester class.
 
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