“During my sporting career, access to the awareness of motor preferences would have saved me a lot of time. I would have avoided certain defeats. This approach would have allowed me to understand more clearly the internal logic of boxing. Taking into account my own functioning and that of my opponents would have shed different light on what it was possible to prepare to win my fights, to be more effective.
In some cases, I did not find the relevant strategies due to a lack of knowledge of these elements. I even adopted strategies contrary to what should have been done: I happened to increase my own difficulty, and make things easier for my opponent, while trying to do the opposite. In boxing, when we make things more difficult for ourselves by these inappropriate strategic choices, we spend a lot more energy and we take more hits. On the scale of a career, this comes with a price. My career would probably have been different if I had been able to integrate motor preferences (mine and those of my opponents) to even more precisely individualize my preparation for performance. » Sarah Ourahmoune, 2016 Olympic vice-champion, founder and chairperson of Boxer Inside