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Dark South Academy

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🥊Boxing studio
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦All levels from beginner to advanced
🏋️Personal training & group sessions
🤓 Fully Qualified Trainers
🏠 Batemans Bay

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DSA GYM RULES

• No sparring when coach isn’t there
• Turn up early be ready
• Respect each other and the equipment
• Push each other
• No egos
• No fighting outside the gym
• Don’t expect to fight or spar if you don’t attend training
• Being sore isn’t a good enough excuse
• No cameras allowed during sparring
• Leave the coaching up to the coach that’s why you pay them
• Respect your coaches by @darksouthacademy

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3 years ago

🥊 CALLING ALL LOCAL BOXING GYMS! NOMINATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! 🔥

The Illawarra Challenger Fight Night is BACK, and we’re calling on local boxing gyms to nominate their fighters for our upcoming event!

Before we officially release our tickets tomorrow and open up VIP tables and sponsorship opportunities, we’re putting the call out to gyms across the Illawarra who want to get their fighters involved!

Whether you’ve got novice boxers ready for their first bout or fighters looking for their next opportunity to step into the ring, we want to hear from you! 🥊

📅 SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2026

🚪 Doors open 5:00pm | First fight 5:30pm

📩 TO NOMINATE YOUR FIGHTERS:

DM us, email admin@adaptacademy.com.au or text Nudge directly.

We’re looking forward to bringing the local boxing community together for another HUGE night!

LET’S GET MATCHED! 🔥🥊 taken in Adapt Boxing Academy by @darksouthacademy

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17 hours ago

🥊 WHAT A TURNOUT THIS MORNING!!! 🔥🔥

This morning we brought our Illawarra Challengers together from across the gyms for our first inter-gym sparring and opponent matching morning!

And what a morning it was!!

We got to see so many of our Challengers put their training to work, step outside their comfort zones and get a little taste of what’s to come on fight night. 😈🥊

We managed to get SO many potential match-ups organised, but we’ve still got some work to do!

So we’re running it back in TWO WEEKS! 🔥

Challengers, if you missed this morning, don’t stress! You’ll have another opportunity to come along, get some rounds in and be considered for matching.

A massive thank you to all the gyms, coaches and Challengers who came together this morning. We are getting SO excited to see this all come together!

🎟️ FIGHT NIGHT INFORMATION AND TICKET LINKS ARE COMING THIS WEEK!

November 21 is getting closer and closer. LET’S GO!!! 🥊🔥 taken in Adapt Boxing Academy by @darksouthacademy

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3 days ago

🥊 CHALLENGERS, TOMORROW’S THE DAY!

Our first INTER-GYM SPARRING & OPPONENT MATCHING DAY is happening TOMORROW! 🔥

All our Illawarra Challenger gyms are coming together so our coaches can see how everyone is progressing, get you working with different training partners and start putting together potential match-ups for fight night!

📅 TOMORROW, Saturday 17th October
⏰ 8:30AM SHARP
📍 Adapt Boxing Academy
3/30 Swan Street, Wollongong

With fight night getting closer, this is a big step in your Challenger journey!

All challengers are expected to attend. Please arrive on time, bring your gear and be ready to work.

Can’t wait to see everyone in action tomorrow! 😈🥊

NOVEMBER 21, WE’RE COMING FOR YOU! 🔥 taken in Adapt Boxing Academy by @darksouthacademy

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4 days ago

A big shoutout to Siarra 💓

Siarra, who works in our crèche and also trains with us at The Ditch & DSA, was recently selected to attend the She Leads High 2026 Conference in Canberra.

The conference brought together around 200 young women from 10 different schools for a day focused on leadership, empowerment, resilience and creating positive change.

Siarra heard from a range of inspiring women across sport, science, advocacy and community leadership, including Molly Croft, co-founder of the Tie Dye Project, who has helped raise more than $1.6 million for sarcoma research. She also took part in a workshop focused on success and heard from a panel of women sharing their experiences in leadership.

We’re really proud to have Siarra as part of our Ditch & DSA crew, both working with our little ones in the crèche and putting in the work as an athlete herself.

A pretty special experience to be selected for, and one we’re sure Siarra will take plenty away from. Well done, Siarra 🖤 by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

Congratulations to Billy 👏

Billy has been selected for the Maritime Immersion Program, being held in Tasmania this November. Only 14 students from across NSW were chosen based on their applications.

He’ll be heading on an all-expenses-paid trip to the Australian Maritime College, where he’ll take part in engineering, virtual reality port navigation and other marine activities.

It’s so great to see our athletes achieving things both inside and outside of the gym and taking on opportunities like this.

Such a great achievement, Billy. Well done! 👏🔥 by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

AIS Indigenous Camp complete for our DSA athletes Jacinta & Sebastian 🥊

Such a great experience for both of them with sparring, technique work, the Cooper test and plenty more.

Lots of experience gained, new connections made and plenty to take back home.

Great work Jacinta & Seb 👏🏽 by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

A huge congratulations to Jacinta, who has once again been selected to head down to the AIS as part of Team NSW for the Indigenous Camp! 🥊💙

Your hard work and commitment don’t go unnoticed, Jacinta. Another well-deserved opportunity. by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

All the best to Seb, who is representing NSW at the Indigenous Camp at the AIS this weekend 🥊

Such an awesome opportunity and one you’ve worked hard for.

We’re all so proud of you, Seb! Go soak it all up and enjoy the experience 💙 by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

🥊 SAVE THE DATE, CHALLENGERS. IT’S TIME TO GET MATCHED.

Saturday 17th October marks another big step towards fight night.

We’re bringing our Challengers together for our first inter-gym sparring and opponent matching day ahead of the Illawarra Challenger in November.

This is your notice to clear your Saturday morning, get organised and make sure you’re there.

This session gives our coaches the opportunity to see you working with people outside your usual gym and training partners, assess how you’re progressing and begin the process of finding appropriate match-ups for fight night.

📅 Saturday 17th October
⏰ 8:30am sharp
📍 Adapt Boxing Academy
3/30 Swan Street, Wollongong

We’re getting closer now. taken in Adapt Boxing Academy by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

Proud of our boxer Rogan for stepping outside his comfort zone today and attending the NSW School Age & Junior Development Camp 🥊

Such a great experience for him and another opportunity to learn, grow and develop as a boxer.

A big thank you to Boxing NSW for continuing to put these amazing development camps on, and to all the coaches who took time out of their day to help the next generation of boxers.

Well done, Rogan. We are Proud of you 🥊 by @darksouthacademy

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a month ago

Happy birthday Em 🥳❤️

We all love and appreciate everything you do for us here at The Ditch.

Thank you for always bringing out the best version of ourselves, for bringing the vibes every single time, and just for being you.

We’re very lucky to have you.

Love you always from the whole team ❤️

Happy birthday Em! 🥳 by @darksouthacademy

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