First day, first contact, first difficulty: the language barrier! 

French, english, spanish, and even a few words of arabic… Ok, there is always a solution. With our translator Marion, we manage to connect everyone with everyone.

 

And very quickly, the magic of sport makes its job! During the first training, with a few gestures, some glances, one, two or three words in english or in spanish, the teenagers manage to communicate amongst themselves… The only thing is to dare! 

 

On the schedule of the week:

 

2 hours of frontball every morning, in Larochefoucault gym which counts 3 frontball courts. 

Everyone practiced and improved by its own rhythm, learning perseverance, respect, the importance of listening, and the desire to go beyond its own limits. 

 

Some of the kids weren’t used to play on official standard walls, and they had a chance to develop their game, ending showing the best of their capacities. Like Sifiso, this young South-African frontballer who is used to play on a 2.50m wall while waiting for the construction of a new better one. We saw him letting himself go and play such a better frontball during this week, and he even ended winning the finals in his group!