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Punch back | Cyril Benzaquen | TEDxEMLYON


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Hello everyone I am very happy
to be here and to find myself in
a lecture hall once again for for
share my discipline
you’ll see just now why a
again I will start with you
familiarize a little with this universe that
maybe or not master all the
kick boxing and Thai boxing so the
kick boxing and Thai boxing these are
boxing feet fists
so we have the right to use the
deposits of the arms of the knees and
legs
we want you to listen to circular
I spend too much movement because
that we are not here for that and so
are fights actually is articulating with
five rounds of three minutes and
recoveries that range from one to two
minutes following the countries and
competitions and in fact
boxing is for me miraculous
since it allowed me to make
extraordinary things by values
that she cares and that she
teaches us and it’s for me though
I am not yet senior but I think
that the ringing experience is a
accelerated life experience and that’s
what am I going today you you
share in sync in the first round
I would like
story as we approach on the
ring finally since when I arrive
in the ring even before the
gong ringing we are there
the two adversaries we observe each other
look at you analyze you try to
understand even before touching
I mean this boxer and from
from there all the patterns we had
studied in training
resurface then of course you do not have to
stay in this phase of observation and
and passivity since of course he
have to start by daring and create two of the
movement
that’s what it’s like
can create an emotion and create
something positive in the
fight so we always start by getting
looking and have created contact like
we say we take the temperature we’re going
gauge his opponent how he reacts
and in life it’s kind of the same
since finally when when I had
14 years old I was interested in sports
of fight
so I was interested in
passive at home keeping on
youtube or rocky movies by
example and there was an element
thus triggering this little devil to
this contact that has been with me
go to a room to discover and
learn this sport just like a child
will learn to walk
not only looking at his parents
market but trying to do it him
also for round 2 I would like you
share the most iconic value
of my discipline which is that of
commitment
since when you’re in the ring you have to
face three opponents and so
you can not go back
it is sanctioned by
the referee you have to face the look
to stay in front of luynes not and not
make this commitment is in the life of
every day it’s a little bit the same
since when you meet
difficulties you have to learn from them
face and usually when you
turns her back on her difficulties she
come back to you in the figure a lot more
strong that they
that the first time abnegation
I come here it’s really the value that
that we develop as an athlete of
high level since we are obliged to
to be determined during these 5
great because nothing is ever finished
in a fight you know in boxing we have
five rounds you can lose a fight
during the five rounds and win it
in the last few seconds of the
match it’s all the magic of this sport
since since the case to forgiveness can
happen and this experience I ‘m going
besides, I have not lived
since twice in my career
the first time on a title of
champion of France is the second
times in Italy on a championship title
europe
I was not in it happens
I was elsewhere that night and I
lose the fight until the last
minutes
and in the last minutes the opponent
who is completely declared winner
in his head since eventually they
win every round will start to
to learn a little confidence and to
do things that should not be done
and it is at this precise moment that
an opportunity opens for me and that
I can win the fighter then
that was not gained from advanced and
I think it’s this value
of abnegation it is valid for for
any universe since so much
to keep fighting and to go
forward
well, well, we can get to his
end the day near a granny
I was welcome to know how to cash in
before giving and yes so that’s true
that boxing today she is at the
fashion we practice more and more but
we must understand it will learn to
to kick is something
that we could do together it takes
a few minutes or a little more its c
at d
movements of the arms of the movements of
legs of displacements etc
only to learn how to box
much more than taking shots
it’s learning to defend yourself and
to learn to defend oneself is to know
to touch without being touched is like
me me mohamed ali said
touched like a bee sting like
a bee and fly like a butterfly
and this sentence makes sense for
me since boxing we see it we saw
the guy he often has two individuals to
two fighters who are bumping into each other
but it’s still the most
smart who wins and not the most
loud and so I wanted to talk to you about the
displacement since when we are on the
ring
we move we swivel and it’s
when I’m locked up finally my
move will allow me to two
frames and my opponent just like I
will crop what I’m looking for
do in my life and when I’m
back to the strings of course my only way out
if I want to continue the fight it’s
get out of this axis by swiveling and I
the image of the basketball player who gave me a lot
marked why the basketball player since
a basketball player when he receives a ball
and who dribbles and he stops he has
the right to rotate 90 degrees before
to make a pass and and in the life of
once we are stubborn in one to want
do something that is not possible
and you just have to move the prism
a few degrees to get there
a few years ago I returned
à à Dauphine in a license reserved for
high level athletes and so it was
the creation of this promotion and to
the outcome of this promotion
we all wanted to stay at Dauphine
only we were told it’s not
possible because you do not have the
level you are high sportsmen
level you did not do the same
Licence
it’s good we’re all everyone
decided to leave and I was
deeply attached to this college and
I told myself frankly I want to
stay
so I did like the basketball player I
am told why could not vote and get
say let’s do a general license
for then geared on a master I
was not a year close and that’s what
I did what allowed me to get
a master later on all that for
explain that this art of displacement
it is valid in any
field I think that from the moment
where we come to have a vision
peripheral
we go further lagard
I wanted to talk to you about it because it’s
a bit of a figure as emblematic of
the ace of boxing there I am well
protected by the way
so where at or how would I say
oh that’s the first thing we do
learn to do finally we teach you
to raise your hands to look at your
opponent and learn to block his
costs it’s like judo where we go
to teach you dropped before learning
to bring down the other you need
know how to brake in your car before
before learning to pass the
speeds
finally with this fourth round
I would like you to share my feelings
on what is success and
victory of my experience
already we are in a very sport
open and very fine habitat very
subjective we will say it’s not like
in a boxing football match or when
you put a goal 2 0
everyone sees it we’re all
Okay
in boxing one is judged by individuals
by referees who all have a
different sensitivity and who are going
all make a different judgment on
the fight so what really matters
is it the judgment of these
referees or is it your own
judgment on your performance
what is better better
win a fight because the referees
did you understand what they were waiting for or
is it better to give you the
best of you even raise your
all the resources and be proud of
you at the end of the fight
its jelly understood after several
failures since actually when
when you think too much results
generally you do not enjoy the trip
the trip is in the fight and when you
are not in the moment
Well, it does not happen and many times
it did not happen
but woe but fortunately
maybe because it’s because it’s
did not go past those times that I
managed to get but will leave at
the future is in my career every
transition phase was done by a
failure
my first fight I lost it my
first fight pro I lost it my
first championship of France I have it
lost my first championship final
of the world I lost them and it did not
prevented from becoming three-time champion
of the world because each time I have
rebuilt behind and when one is
in the victory
we do not always have this perspective to see
what has not been what is
which was
we keep going and feasting then
that in case of failure we recover
question and its lakes and its dates
is built that’s why we have
tendency to talk about failure
and I prefer to talk about
to learn rather than talk to you about
a failure
finally for the fifth round
I would like to tell you about this universe
in boxing actually where we learn to
to mobilize different resources
that’s what I mean by that
said we are sure of boxing feet
fists
it happened to me during a fight of
to break my hand during the fight
it hurts but it’s not it’s not
that will stop us as long as we can
continue and from that moment on
I go to my in my corner I am
super worried anxieties and I talk to
my coach how am I going to do
I have more right hand I have more than
right hand and at that moment they’re me
remind my times again a hand
left still has a left leg is
still one right leg and so that’s
true that sometimes when we get hurt
finally or when we have a problem we have
tendency to hang on what we
stop or think about everything
has others to all our resources
additional
this is where boxing strengthens us and
allows us to go beyond us
same
unlike maybe sports
collectives where we can rely on
colleagues
there we need to go to tap into
other personal resources and this
which was wonderful in in the
misfortune of the universe of kickboxing and and
of Thai boxing is that today
Thai boxing and kickboxing are
relatively unstructured in France
and we do not have much
accompaniment for athletes
high level beginner to know a
center like lindsay who we
would welcome on a daily basis and
we would frame to access
sports performances
it’s up to our athletes
get by and from us manager of
manage our career understand and its
skills there every boxer I say
well each boxer will know the
to transcribe in his personal life
in his career
personally it was in the
studies and that’s how I could
go back to Dauphine and come
and get a bac +5 and we had a tendency
finally as they say and they called me
the student boxer etc
but in truth it’s all the reverse
the boxer and who became a student and
not the student who is who is
become boxer it’s thanks to these
values ​​that I could do my studies and
even more even more because one is
werner boxing so to my animated tomorrow
to Nimes and via that I was saying the fact
we manage ourselves we learn to manage
our careers pushed me to
undertake since I was
faced with we will not say
names but I did not receive what
I was waiting for them from the middle here I am
am in a category the 81 kg where
there are not too many opportunities in
France and so I was disappointed not to
to be called on the beautiful evenings
that I saw where there were others
fighters
so it made me do it myself
even simply and so in
last year of master in
entrepreneurship at dauphine
rather than doing an end internship
I thought to myself and why not
but your student pathways is
your high level athlete course
by organizing a boxing gala and in
thinking I told myself where I
can do it
and the idea came to me to do it at
dauphine in the amphi since they have a
amphitheater that is about 1200
people something like that a little
bigger than here that’s why I
said my return to the amphitheater for
boxing at the beginning and so I decided
to organize this boxing gala in in
the amphitheater and I played it a
world championship so November 27
latest
and all that to say that this this
element of my life was not possible
that because I have received names and
because I did not have that
I was waiting for the names we form
finally to conclude we were talking about
miracle or in the common and I think that
the potentials are extraordinary in
each of us and what leads to a
meter of times in someone’s light
more than any other I think in particular to
all those shadow men who are
people from my team who participated in my
performance and that make sure that I
got there
and so I make them a little twinkle
in this conclusion
since without them I would not be
not here today and so I go
finish on a metaphor for the sportsman
high level where my preparer
physical would be a little the engine of one of the
vehicle and my coach the lever
of speed and so without them I could
not go up a gear
thank you thank you to you
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