The struggle of a former champion to save his boxing club, pioneer of full contact in France

"Paris, autumn 2017, Rue de Nantes, in the 19th district, near the Crimée station.
In the Enjoy by FKC sports club, Rodrigue Listoir is preparing for his boxing training. This 46-year-old teacher and former full contact champion has been fighting the most difficult and decisive battle of his life for the past two years. Two years earlier, in March 2015, his life took a radical turn. His friend and mentor, Daniel Rennesson, died at the age of 63 of a heart attack, leaving the sports club, which he founded 30 years ago, in debt and orphaned.
In the name of his friend and for the love of this sport, Rodrigue took over. Today, he fights for the survival of this club and to perpetuate a certain philosophy of boxing and life.
The film plunges, without knowing the outcome, into a man’s fight to save his club, to preserve his 600 adherents and continue to transmit the values that are dear to him."

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Far from the stereotypes of a violent combat sport, this documentary shows another vision of boxing. Here it is not strength and brutality that are emphasized but finesse and tactics. A real physical chess game. A work on oneself and a transimission of values that the boxing club of Enjoy by FKC seeks to promote. Since 1976, the FKC animates the life of the 19th district of Paris, by proposing several combat sports. A factory of champions, the FKC gained a great reputation in the 80s and 90s, attracting many new members. The club even participated in the world championship of full contact in Venice, Italy.
Boxing gives young people from working class backgrounds the confidence and ambition that they would never have gained in a society that ostracizes them. In this club, they find a support and a family that accompanies them in their sporting and private life. Boxing is like an escape, a way to forget the worries of everyday life. But the death of their mentor Daniel Rennesson marks the beginning of the fall and the fight against banks and insurance companies. The beautiful story is damaged but the members and volunteers fight to give a new life to their club.
Like a visual sociology, Coline Beuvelet plunges us into the daily life of this sport, its moments of joy and difficulties, while showing what it brings to these sport practitioners.

Original Title - La vie plus dure que le ring (Life, tougher than a boxing fight)
A film by Coline Beuvelet

2015, © Licensed by CPB Films

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