The Blue Cat Boxing Club was founded in 1999. Starting with limited funds, and a small, confined space with no air flow and uneven cement floors, new members just kept showing up. It became evident the club served a community need, and demand progressed unabated.
In January 2008 we expanded to our current location on Beaubien, where we have remained to this day. The club has endured, with thanks to the pivotal contributions from our members throughout, founded with the following guiding principles:
Boxing is an amazing and challenging sport. The primary goal of the club is to provide an environment that makes boxing accessible to you, no matter your background, gender, profession or other qualities.
Boxing can be a safe sport, when it is practised conscientiously and under strict attention. We provide a safe environment for you to learn the sport, allowing the positive qualities of boxing to emerge and flourish.
Boxing is hard. In the club, the workouts are designed to push you to your personal physical limits. It requires hard work and consistency to survive, and we reinforce those principles throughout.
In the ring, eventually you will confront your mental, emotional and physical boundaries. We facilitate the journey to your limits and subsequently to traverse your personal barriers.
Starting Tuesday, April 11 we are offering a full 12-week, twice a week workout class in Montreal. Each class, lasting just over one-hour, combines a great workout with boxing techniqe. Places are limited. For more information see below.
With safety as our priority, we are maintaining a number of protocols in place. All heavy bags are situated at least 4m apart. All clients must have their own handwraps, gloves, skipping ropes, (yoga) mats and towels. All changerooms will remain closed. Everyone is expected to arrive in workout gear. Hands must be washed on arrival and departure. We continue to recommend distancing and the use of masks except when training. We ask anyone experiencing flu or other cold symptoms to please refrain from entering the premises.
As of February 2023, the Centre Chat Bleu in MAGOG, will likewise be offering boxing classes, Saturday workouts and a childrens activity class specifically for homeschooled kids.
Workout-Technical class geared for All Levels
During the SPRING workout class we focus on fundamental sport-specific conditioning and the technical attributes essential for you as a boxer. The course consists of twice a week classes, just over an hour each, for 12 weeks ($199 + taxes). See also our PRICE LIST.
Course Date and Time:
Tuesday and Thursday: 6pm - 7:15pm
April 11 to June 29, 2023
See our PRICE LIST.
Boxing is an art and a science. The barriers a performance athlete confronts are both intrinsic and environmental. To challenge their limits, the athlete depends on practise, preparation, teamwork and coaching. The sport of boxing presents additional demands in the face of violence, physical harm and loss of agency. Our role is to facilitate and guide you as an athlete, to traverse your boundaries and master self.
Photo: JF Galipeau
A key component of boxing is understanding space and distance, and creating boundaries through physical means.
Photo: Maxime Normand
A boxer must decide whether to engage, move or defend. Effective choices are often counterintuitive. They result from years of practise, while learning to temper preconceptions and intrinsic reactions to fear and conflict.
Photo: JF Galipeau
Although the boxer's journey may focus on one individual, others implicate themselves for their betterment.
Photo: Maxime Normand
Asserting oneself in boxing involves the challenge of defending against attacks, and the genuine danger of physical injury.
Photo: Maxime Normand
There are two athletes in the ring, but their experience is lived by their coaches, team members and everyone else that is present.
Photo: Benoit Marineau
The coach facilitates the athlete in traversing the intractable barriers they confront on their journey.
Photo: Maxime Normand
Within the context of struggle there are moments, even with adversaries, to rest and breathe.
Photo: JF Galipeau
Each journey brings a new depth of knowledge and experience to the athlete. Ultimately, the fighter learns there is never finality.
Photo: Maxime Normand
Pushing their boundaries in the ring is a shared experience. No matter the outcome each person is touched; opening their raw selves to confront their vulnerabilities, strengths and limitations together as adversaries.
WINTER Workout Classes
Trial Classes (one per session)
Private Lessons
Phil Dickinson founded the Blue Cat Boxing Club in 1999, and is the head coach and owner. He is a high-performance boxing coach (Level 4 NCCP) and competed as an amateur boxer in the 80s and 90s. He also has a PhD in Neuroscience and Masters degree in Psychiatry. These combined and diverse interests provide the basis for the defining principles of the club.
435 rue Beaubien Ouest, 4e
Outremont, QC
H2V 1C9, Canada