Women's Boxing Makes Possibilities：
Pay Attention to "Technical Performance" Category

Shin FUJIYAMA

Journal of Sport and Gender Studies Vol.5： 18-30, 2007

Abstract

　This paper focuses the impact of women's boxing over the general boxing. Furthermore, it highlights the remarkable feature of Japanese women's amateur boxing, which has the 'Technical Performance' category in its boxing competitions, and considers how women's sports would be able to influence on the whole of sports activities.
　'Technical Performance' is one of the Japanese female boxing events. Those scoring items in 'Technical Performance' can examine the essential aspects for boxing, therefore, all the boxing players are required to obtain those necessary abilities and should be judged by how they are capable of showing the abilities. Thus, the technical performances should functionally improve the level of both women's and all boxing competitiveness. Subsequently, it proves that there is no difference between men and women in their boxing techniques and consequently, the proof leads to abolish gender bias in boxing games.
　In addition, technical performance plays a key role in school educations as well. Japan used to rule out female boxers in schools and only men could learn boxing before. However, as technical performance does not contain any violent factors, for example, knocking out somebody, it would be relatively acceptable for physical educations in schools. It is believed to be possible to offer the opportunity for female students to learn the technical performance of boxing. This opportunity is quite significant to establish the true equality between men and women in terms of giving equal choices for both of them in lifetime.
　All sporting events including boxing need to be reviewed without gender bias or concerns and that would be able to enhance the sports skills and its appeal. Since the author has researched on relations between sports and gender, it is a very important mission to provide the possibilities and new attractions of sports.

Keywords: Women's boxing, Equality of choices, Technical performance