the essential
This physiotherapist, aged 62, is the new president of the Ruthenian club. Its priority is “to find numbers on the rise”.
Jacques Tronc could very well have chosen the oval ball. like his father Robert who created the rugby school in Millau. He also wore the uniform of a volunteer at Lévézou Ségala Aveyron, from 1999 to 2014. Before working, for a season, the last of the late Stade Rodez Aveyron, as a physiotherapist of the club chaired by Jean-Paul Barriac, his beau -brother, married to his sister Isabelle. He finally took the plunge into the service of karate, which he himself called his “heart sport “. After three years in the office, he became, a few weeks ago, the new president of Sakura, succeeding Florian Depuille, who remained vice-president, who had taken over from Chantal Hurtes, at the helm for a decade.
Born in Millau on October 1, 1962 (the same day as Christian Cabantous, but twelve months earlier!), Jacques Tronc followed his parents to Rodez, as part of a paternal professional transfer, at the age of 7 . He started karate in 1978 at Sakura, a club created the previous year by Daniel Blanchet and Jacky Lecoq. He practiced it for four years, at the time at the Foch high school gymnasium, then a few classes in Gourgan, before putting his things away in the locker rooms to begin studying physiotherapy in Montpellier. The parenthesis lasted… thirty-five years!
Working at the Ceignac cardiac rehabilitation center, he came across Didier Chauchard, a former club mate, who had come to visit a member of his family. Which encouraged him to take a license again. He did not forget: I followed what was happening from a bit of a distance and, after this reunion, I decided to open the doors to level minus 3 of the Amphitheater. I took my wife Marielle, who practiced judo, with me and I started from scratch, from white belt, to reach brown today. And to run for black before the end of the year “. And he therefore agreed, very recently, to take the reins of Sakura, on the condition, in particular, that his predecessor would accompany him for a year.
Recover the workforce slope
Surrounded by a large team of coaches (technical director Richard Gaspar, Christian Cabantous, Jean-Michel Hurtes and Jérôme Gayrard for combat, Julien Barthe and Jean-Paul Birot for the karate school, Nicolas Berruer, Alain Sirven and Didier Chauchard for tai jitsu and self defense), this father of three children and grandfather of three grandchildren believes that “Sakura covers colors at the staff level“. He confirms: “We communicate a lot on social networks during this back-to-school season. We recorded a sharp drop in licenses, especially among young people, going from 150 to around a hundred. Karate not being an Olympic sport, there is no Olympic effect “.
Jacques Tronc will also closely monitor the performances of his members, including that of Lionel Frezal, who will participate in the European kata wado ryu championship in Edinburgh, Scotland, in November. The cleaning has been done and there is still room in the club’s trophy case…
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