here is
the last fight of my life as an athlete
we are to temper in 2006 in
finland and i’m facing the japanese
arai is the final and I will have the
happiness of losing rank won this
ultimate fight
if I had to summarize my 15 years of
career it would be so without a fight the umih
during training
sixteen thousand hours of karate 600 thousand
kicking five hundred and fifty thousand
punches unprotected if we
lost teeth protector 40 kimono 60
pairs of sneakers 50 tracksuit 36 countries
last visited at least their gym and
their and their hotel 5 hours of expectations
in the toilet of the doping control
to wait until urination want to
come two tons of slow sugars
the fundamental energy to express oneself
on the tatami it was also a fracture
6.2 six stitches 200 hematoma d
twenty two tendonitis Chevy
wrist
it’s also hours and 600
900 hours of osteopathy
kinesitherapy and also karate being
a young Olympic discipline
but also an amateur discipline so
it’s precariousness
I had to work part-time to
support my needs
all this for one hundred and twenty seconds of
fight rather restrictive no but the
bigger is the first of my
constraints
it was karate because I did not
did not want to do it and it’s out of love
for my father that at 12 years old I have them
followed every other day while I
happily danced soul and binou
Provençal and there of a nature rather
shy introverted so not very talkative
and quite lonely I find myself in
a universe where you do not want to scream
hit and do it with
people I did not choose
I cried a lot it was enough
violent for me to find ourselves face
to each other and to be in this
obligation to hit him at every
fight with every shot I carry and I
did not stop excusing me thinking
that I had not controlled enough
my technique
or so during the graduation there
happened to me many times to lose
totally my ways
by running what’s called a kata this
are techniques against an opponent
imaginary by being completely helpless
face my teacher to his assistants
and to all the students with whom I
practice karate but it was for me
the way to express myself without needing
to speak
and it allowed me to be in one in one
in action and in an action rather
virtuous and positive who will you have
consciousness it was ultimately rather
good for me then comes the time of
competitions I’m 16 years old I’m
encouraged by iron and I join as a team
from France I am rigorous
I work I am self-sacrificing
I am also a perfectionist and at my
first competition my first
World Championship
it was in south africa at sun city
I finish fourth not bad, will you say
except that I did not have more confidence
in me I was stressed anxious I
doubted my abilities of my
potential I judged myself permanently
I was afraid of the way we look and
what I did and I
I also had the fear of doing wrong
I like at the age of three I’m on the plane
which leads me to Japan to participate in
the women’s world cup
and here I wonder what I’m doing there I
tell me I will travel 9500 km to
arrive on wednesday night in tokyo
fight and in China is a fight
completely jet lag and saturday
come back to paris the wounded sunday I
am in a kind of wandering and
finally I wonder why I
do karate until I do
the meeting of masks then for me
there was a little bit of these two
characters that I see you have
also identified
but in this meeting that was
important
they were competitors they had
formed a large number of champions and to
my surprise he told me laurence the
competition is because there is more
important
he tells me it’s part of a
cycle
it’s part of an energy is part
one meter of your maturity at this moment
there and it must just be a twitter that
must be something that will help you
consolidate the values you acquired
by practice to give you benchmarks
as a human being as a woman
and he’s telling me now look for hockey
and it’s true he gave me access to the
martial culture he gave me access to his
Ozen spirituality
he offered me a vision in 3d where it took me
allowed to stir up my curiosity
it allowed me to have this thirst
to learn who led me to give
meaning to my practice
so when I was working I
worked in another state of mind
so that for example my stress
and my anxiety was reflected in I
could not control my
breathing game in competition I
lost a lot of energy because of
that but he told me he was good at controlling his
breathing we were close to Marseille
at the time is fine I’m going
initiate you to apnea
I had what is called the complex of
sporting and but I considered that the
studies it was not for me there too
studies at age 28 I took them back and
I integrated the legal thresholds yes well
sure but not centered
humility absolutely because you will have
always someone stronger than you
physical and moral integrity
that’s exactly what will allow you
to live longer and in good
health
respect for yourself respect for others
yes but then without doing any
gift on the tatami and that’s
paradoxically what made that
friendships were created and all these
done with a lot of loyalty and everything
that to tell us that finally
to reach the summits
yes but without this being the purpose this
who counts is and what counts always
that’s the way and if during the ascent
I stopped a fighting injury
lost
the meeting of people rather
malicious and well being
in this state of mind
the fact of playing face the test
really completely
different find solutions in getting
serving his constraints I that I
quoted you and to serve
is it a force going to
the essential
go to the basics by appealing to
what more animal I have
organic to allow me to be
fully in action and to be
deeply myself release me from my
condition
by striking while still striking
accepting the emotion that comes in
the identifier because it is left
go all the way to identify it and
for in the end the mastery and let
imagination and creation do not guide
no longer thinking but just being in
the action and this action there makes me
explode all the all the fears that
I can have and be myself I know
who I am and in fact I know that I
am a strong woman that i have
always summer and karate allowed me
to be aware of it
and when I stopped my career that
I hung up my competition kimono
that today I’m doing this to you
observation in the way that it has me
brought
I have another fight a very big
fight for which I committed
it’s the defense of rights
humans and in particular that of
activist women with what I know
do better
sport transmission through action
is true that when I was an athlete
I have seen injustices
inequalities and I was sensitive
that sometimes made me angry but
I was driven by the momentum of the high level
because I did not stop but I
worked the art of dodging the and
that of the attack in the tacc is
quite recently I met I did
a meeting again the
encounters of an extraordinary man he
is Congolese Obstetrician Gynecologist
his name is denis mukwege is this
maybe you know him and
it’s a man who put me face to face
the inhuman face barbarism in front of
the unacceptable and it is in this respect the
rape used as a weapon of war
I met the women who looked after him
for calls and survivor
for information the congo in 2010 finally
the democratic republic of the congo has
been considered
and I think that unfortunately he is
still as the world capital of
rape
namely that 1100 women are raped
every day so strong of this finding and
from this meeting I too
associated with this combat struggle in the
doctor melting fight for dignity
today these are women victims
but also more and more children and
of babies unpunished rapes of the victims
stigmatize rejected by their community
so we have this is it is the country
where everything happens we have victims
who may also have hiv
who can also after the rape
have children
is what doctor mukwege does?
is that after medical care
brought for those who are most
in difficulty he will have proposed what we
call a house transit a house where
they can rest or they have
access to school free of charge
professional training courses where they
have access to medical care
for free they can also have
access what have to music therapy and
in that context fight for dignity put
in place a karate program and
football adapted to their trauma or
allows women to reclaim themselves
their body by this practice in the
connecting to their mind
so I go regularly to the congo and
there is about twenty women who
every year once a week
practice with her practice obviously
the first thing that we think
it’s defense self-defense
but obviously you think that
it’s a lot more than that they do
they learn and do exercises
relaxation breathing on
works the perineum
we play we share to give them is
frozen to drive him more confidence in
she to find the estimate of
self so that it regains the taste of
life and that obviously I do it with
franck who transmits to him also to his
turn to these women and all year long and this
which is really great is that
today zawadi sandra agnès want
teach have sprouted in her a seed
hope
this seed there they want the
transmit
and it works
and fight for dignity that hope there
oval
vanu also pass it on to others
medical structures tomorrow in France
very tomorrow in afghanistan south sudan
in Colombia
for that hope there
continue and can help even more
women
[Applause]
the last fight of my life as an athlete
we are to temper in 2006 in
finland and i’m facing the japanese
arai is the final and I will have the
happiness of losing rank won this
ultimate fight
if I had to summarize my 15 years of
career it would be so without a fight the umih
during training
sixteen thousand hours of karate 600 thousand
kicking five hundred and fifty thousand
punches unprotected if we
lost teeth protector 40 kimono 60
pairs of sneakers 50 tracksuit 36 countries
last visited at least their gym and
their and their hotel 5 hours of expectations
in the toilet of the doping control
to wait until urination want to
come two tons of slow sugars
the fundamental energy to express oneself
on the tatami it was also a fracture
6.2 six stitches 200 hematoma d
twenty two tendonitis Chevy
wrist
it’s also hours and 600
900 hours of osteopathy
kinesitherapy and also karate being
a young Olympic discipline
but also an amateur discipline so
it’s precariousness
I had to work part-time to
support my needs
all this for one hundred and twenty seconds of
fight rather restrictive no but the
bigger is the first of my
constraints
it was karate because I did not
did not want to do it and it’s out of love
for my father that at 12 years old I have them
followed every other day while I
happily danced soul and binou
Provençal and there of a nature rather
shy introverted so not very talkative
and quite lonely I find myself in
a universe where you do not want to scream
hit and do it with
people I did not choose
I cried a lot it was enough
violent for me to find ourselves face
to each other and to be in this
obligation to hit him at every
fight with every shot I carry and I
did not stop excusing me thinking
that I had not controlled enough
my technique
or so during the graduation there
happened to me many times to lose
totally my ways
by running what’s called a kata this
are techniques against an opponent
imaginary by being completely helpless
face my teacher to his assistants
and to all the students with whom I
practice karate but it was for me
the way to express myself without needing
to speak
and it allowed me to be in one in one
in action and in an action rather
virtuous and positive who will you have
consciousness it was ultimately rather
good for me then comes the time of
competitions I’m 16 years old I’m
encouraged by iron and I join as a team
from France I am rigorous
I work I am self-sacrificing
I am also a perfectionist and at my
first competition my first
World Championship
it was in south africa at sun city
I finish fourth not bad, will you say
except that I did not have more confidence
in me I was stressed anxious I
doubted my abilities of my
potential I judged myself permanently
I was afraid of the way we look and
what I did and I
I also had the fear of doing wrong
I like at the age of three I’m on the plane
which leads me to Japan to participate in
the women’s world cup
and here I wonder what I’m doing there I
tell me I will travel 9500 km to
arrive on wednesday night in tokyo
fight and in China is a fight
completely jet lag and saturday
come back to paris the wounded sunday I
am in a kind of wandering and
finally I wonder why I
do karate until I do
the meeting of masks then for me
there was a little bit of these two
characters that I see you have
also identified
but in this meeting that was
important
they were competitors they had
formed a large number of champions and to
my surprise he told me laurence the
competition is because there is more
important
he tells me it’s part of a
cycle
it’s part of an energy is part
one meter of your maturity at this moment
there and it must just be a twitter that
must be something that will help you
consolidate the values you acquired
by practice to give you benchmarks
as a human being as a woman
and he’s telling me now look for hockey
and it’s true he gave me access to the
martial culture he gave me access to his
Ozen spirituality
he offered me a vision in 3d where it took me
allowed to stir up my curiosity
it allowed me to have this thirst
to learn who led me to give
meaning to my practice
so when I was working I
worked in another state of mind
so that for example my stress
and my anxiety was reflected in I
could not control my
breathing game in competition I
lost a lot of energy because of
that but he told me he was good at controlling his
breathing we were close to Marseille
at the time is fine I’m going
initiate you to apnea
I had what is called the complex of
sporting and but I considered that the
studies it was not for me there too
studies at age 28 I took them back and
I integrated the legal thresholds yes well
sure but not centered
humility absolutely because you will have
always someone stronger than you
physical and moral integrity
that’s exactly what will allow you
to live longer and in good
health
respect for yourself respect for others
yes but then without doing any
gift on the tatami and that’s
paradoxically what made that
friendships were created and all these
done with a lot of loyalty and everything
that to tell us that finally
to reach the summits
yes but without this being the purpose this
who counts is and what counts always
that’s the way and if during the ascent
I stopped a fighting injury
lost
the meeting of people rather
malicious and well being
in this state of mind
the fact of playing face the test
really completely
different find solutions in getting
serving his constraints I that I
quoted you and to serve
is it a force going to
the essential
go to the basics by appealing to
what more animal I have
organic to allow me to be
fully in action and to be
deeply myself release me from my
condition
by striking while still striking
accepting the emotion that comes in
the identifier because it is left
go all the way to identify it and
for in the end the mastery and let
imagination and creation do not guide
no longer thinking but just being in
the action and this action there makes me
explode all the all the fears that
I can have and be myself I know
who I am and in fact I know that I
am a strong woman that i have
always summer and karate allowed me
to be aware of it
and when I stopped my career that
I hung up my competition kimono
that today I’m doing this to you
observation in the way that it has me
brought
I have another fight a very big
fight for which I committed
it’s the defense of rights
humans and in particular that of
activist women with what I know
do better
sport transmission through action
is true that when I was an athlete
I have seen injustices
inequalities and I was sensitive
that sometimes made me angry but
I was driven by the momentum of the high level
because I did not stop but I
worked the art of dodging the and
that of the attack in the tacc is
quite recently I met I did
a meeting again the
encounters of an extraordinary man he
is Congolese Obstetrician Gynecologist
his name is denis mukwege is this
maybe you know him and
it’s a man who put me face to face
the inhuman face barbarism in front of
the unacceptable and it is in this respect the
rape used as a weapon of war
I met the women who looked after him
for calls and survivor
for information the congo in 2010 finally
the democratic republic of the congo has
been considered
and I think that unfortunately he is
still as the world capital of
rape
namely that 1100 women are raped
every day so strong of this finding and
from this meeting I too
associated with this combat struggle in the
doctor melting fight for dignity
today these are women victims
but also more and more children and
of babies unpunished rapes of the victims
stigmatize rejected by their community
so we have this is it is the country
where everything happens we have victims
who may also have hiv
who can also after the rape
have children
is what doctor mukwege does?
is that after medical care
brought for those who are most
in difficulty he will have proposed what we
call a house transit a house where
they can rest or they have
access to school free of charge
professional training courses where they
have access to medical care
for free they can also have
access what have to music therapy and
in that context fight for dignity put
in place a karate program and
football adapted to their trauma or
allows women to reclaim themselves
their body by this practice in the
connecting to their mind
so I go regularly to the congo and
there is about twenty women who
every year once a week
practice with her practice obviously
the first thing that we think
it’s defense self-defense
but obviously you think that
it’s a lot more than that they do
they learn and do exercises
relaxation breathing on
works the perineum
we play we share to give them is
frozen to drive him more confidence in
she to find the estimate of
self so that it regains the taste of
life and that obviously I do it with
franck who transmits to him also to his
turn to these women and all year long and this
which is really great is that
today zawadi sandra agnès want
teach have sprouted in her a seed
hope
this seed there they want the
transmit
and it works
and fight for dignity that hope there
oval
vanu also pass it on to others
medical structures tomorrow in France
very tomorrow in afghanistan south sudan
in Colombia
for that hope there
continue and can help even more
women
[Applause]
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