I started climbing 10 years ago with my middle school and my parents. After 8 years of gym and trying out lots of sports, I discovered THE most stylish sport in the world. So I joined the local club to start participating in regional and national competitions. During my second year, being super motivated to progress and compete, I joined a small training group with whom I went to do paneling every Saturday. It was there that I discovered the thing I love most about climbing training: resi à muerte sessions (yes, you read that right).
For my U18 years, wanting to progress even more and invest myself in this sport. I went to the Quimper club which is in Brittany, the youth training club. I found a great training group there with a superb atmosphere. It's a far cry from what can be done today for young people eager for competitions and performance, but for the time and for Brittany it was great!
For 4 years I've been progressing day by day but climbing is hard so I'm getting really slapped in the face at national competitions but I like it so I go back and it motivates me even more to train harder!
After a year off to devote myself 200% to my higher education, I'm back climbing for my final U20 year. My return was a long way of suffering (because spending a year sitting on a chair has never made anyone progress in climbing, I think...) but I ended my youth years with my first French championship final. Obviously, this shows me that work and perseverance pay off and that I'm progressing. So I decided to go back for at least two seasons of senior competitions to train full throttle to achieve what has become my goal: to join the French difficulty team to participate in my first international competitions. Alongside competitive climbing, I'm also discovering the cliff, but hey, I'm not going to draw you a map of France. When you live in Brittany, you don't go down to Ceüse every weekend...
After a first senior year where I'm slowly getting closer to my goals, covid puts the world of competition on hold. Obviously, you wouldn't know me well to think that I was going to wait quietly on my couch for it to pass. In addition, I am convinced that at some point, competitions will resume and that I will have to be ready! So I train like crazy morning/noon/evening at home. This also allows me to recover from a double hand operation that made me lose a good part of my finger strength.
The plan is going according to plan, the competitions are resuming and I have qualified for my first World Cup.
This selection is a kind of turning point in my life as a climber. I am discovering the true high level of climbing and its demands. I like it and it shows me again that work and perseverance pay off, so I decided to start again for several seasons of competitions in senior (this time I didn't set myself any limits...) to train full throttle but of course... with new goals and ambitions.
A year ago, after completing my physiotherapy studies in Brittany, I headed to Chambéry in Savoie to continue my progress, find competition, find facilities better suited to high-level performance, and get closer to the cliffs.
This season I was selected for the French team again for a few World Cups and European competitions. I didn't quite achieve my goals but there were a lot of positives in the national and international competitions. This shows me once again that work and perseverance... blah blah blah you understand I'm repeating the same thing for the third time. So I'm starting this season more motivated than ever to achieve new goals in competition as well as on the cliff. Today I work part-time as a physiotherapist, which leaves me plenty of time to train properly.
Climbing is such a varied and multifaceted sport that we can constantly reinvent ourselves and find new goals without ever getting bored, which is what has kept me motivated. At 13 when I started climbing, I probably didn't think that 10 years later my life would revolve around this sport, that I would have progressed and that I would still be competing.
