Learning to walk, twice
I began my athletic journey around the age of four, practicing capoeira with my father. It was all fun and games until I was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological condition that led to the loss of function in my legs. What started as playful movement gradually shifted as unexplained stiffness and breathlessness emerged, eventually reaching a point where I lost the use of my legs and the ability to walk. I later had to relearn how to walk, rebuilding a functional nervous and muscular system from the ground up at the age of 6.
A Journey of Movement, Recovery, and Understanding
Fortunately, although I was left with some lasting effects, I recovered most of my physical abilities after this episode. I went on to practice competitive gymnastics for 10 years, alongside intensive dance training, which eventually led to a disc herniation and spondylolisthesis.
At that time, I probably said “my back hurts” more often than my own name. I was dependent on physiotherapy weekly, had lost trust in my body, and decided that building my future around dance or sport was no longer an option. I stepped away from movement for several years, enrolling first in a Hypokhâgne preparatory class and later completing a degree at the Sorbonne ; as if spending a lifetime sitting on a chair were a better idea.
But at that point, I was too broken to think otherwise.
When Weakness Becomes the Work
When you stop practicing a sport that filled 15h/week and replace it with a sedentary life, things change. I gained 7kg. On top of that, lingering illness left me with chronic pain and a back that locked up every two weeks.
I eventually started going to the gym like everyone else, and I was shocked by the contrast between my competitive athletic experience and the group classes available at the time. I was using training as an outlet, until someone helped me realize that I could make something more of it. That’s when I started meeting the people who shaped the rest of my journey.
During this period, that dissatisfaction became the catalyst for deeper exploration. I felt a strong need to understand. To understand chronic pain, and the limiting factors I was still experiencing in training. What had once been weaknesses gradually became strengths, pushing me to develop a deep sense of body awareness, both for myself and for others.
Based in Paris, I traveled to Toronto, Vancouver, London to train and become certified in the most advanced systems at the time, with a focus on fascia and biomechanics, manual therapy, mobility, and postural restoration. I integrated this knowledge with gymnastic preparatory methods, including extensive work on handstands and flexibility training.
The results this led to
Years of training across three countries, distilled into something visible. See what this approach looks like in practice.
The Birth of Puschcamp
I know what high-level sport demands, but I also know what it means to have no strength in your legs and to relearn how to walk at a conscious age. I know what it feels like to be unable to activate your glutes, to struggle to maintain core engagement, and to load everything into the lower back during even the simplest exercises. I have lived these realities and I know now that meaningful, powerful progress is possible when you start from the right place, with the right tools.
I’m also deeply convinced that there is a middle ground ; a form of training that brings together athletes who want to complement their practice, and those who see themselves as “non-athletic” or lacking body awareness. This belief is what led to the creation of Puschcamp ©.
Puschcamp began as a search for better answers to pain, limitation, and performance. And Puschcamp is an evolving system I define as a “Best Of” everything I’ve learned and consider useful, yet is often missing in modern mainstream training.
My coaching approach is rooted in the desire to make gymnastic preparation accessible, to develop strength at end ranges of motion, and to help people develop a taste for this type of effort.
Ultimately, I strive to be the coach I never had myself: to bring comfort, build a resilient physical structure, and restore freedom of movement, so we can inhabit our first home, our body, as fully as possible.
DIFFERENT WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Whether you’re starting from scratch, coming back from injury, or looking to deepen your physical practice, all sessions, private or group, are built on the same foundation: awareness, mobility, technique, and progressive intensity.
Ultimately, I strive to be the coach I never had myself: to bring comfort, build a resilient physical structure, and restore freedom of movement, so we can inhabit our first home, our body, as fully as possible.