The camp will feature members of the Australian Institute of Sport’s National Talent Identification and Development program and talented regional fighters.

Also present will be four locals: 15-year-old bantamweight Keegan Fernando, 16-year-old featherweight Nathan Moore, 18-year-old light welterweight Leroy Brown and 26-year-old middleweight James Creighton.

They will be under the tutelage of AIS coach Paul Perkins and the MBA’s Danny Cheetham and Chalky Ross.

According to Cheetham, the boxers will do sparring, strength and conditioning, coordination work, bag work and partner work.

The sparring, he said, would see the boxers exposed to a variety of styles.

The strength and conditioning will involve a mix of weights and machines and bikes.

The coordination work will involve routines that Cheetham learned from the AIS.

The bag work will involve a mix of combination and fitness work.

The partner work will involve a blend of combinations in attack and evasive movements in defence, done repeatedly so that the boxers will be able to instinctively perform them when under pressure in the ring.

Cheetham said that one of the challenges for the coaches will be tailoring their methods so as to allow for the different personalities and skills of their charges.

He also said that because the NTID boxers are experienced, talented fighters, they will require tweaking rather than wholesale education.

They are young, up-and-comers, who the AIS is hoping will qualify for the 2012 Olympics.

“Some of them will make it, some won’t,” Cheetham said.