Sport Specific Information |
| Club / Team |
Souffel Escrime: Strasbourg, FRA |
| Name of coach |
Jean-Philippe Daurelle [national], FRA |
| Handedness |
Right |
| When and where did you begin this sport? |
He began fencing at age eight in Saint-Leu in the French overseas region of Reunion. |
Further Personal Information |
| Occupation |
Athlete |
| Languages |
French |
General Interest |
| Nicknames |
Max, Frate (escrime-ffe.fr, 03 Feb 2015) |
Further Personal Information |
| Higher education |
Administration Studies - IUT Tarbes - University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III: France |
Sport Specific Information |
| Training Regime |
He trains at the National Institute for Sport, Expertise and Performance [INSEP] in Paris, France. |
| Why this sport? |
"I was looking at sport clubs in our local area, and I discovered one of the few sports that my brothers and sister had not yet tried, fencing. I called the master at arms at the club, Jean-Baptiste Voute, myself to sign up. From the first session, I was hooked. Watching people in strange costumes fighting with swords, it was like being in the movies. There was a certain ferocity to it but at the same time it required control and precision, and that appealed to me from the start." |
General Interest |
| Other information |
REUNION TO EUROPE
He was born in Reunion, a French overseas region in the Indian Ocean. He moved to the French mainland as a teenager. "Reunion is my native land. It is the only place in the world where I feel at home, and I have been to many places." (gadiamb.re, 23 May 2019) |
