Robert Paturel

Robert Paturel is a French Savate boxer and RAID veteran born in 1952 in RueilMalmaison He won the French Boxing championship six times in France and became a European champion in 1984 Nicknamed Gorille Gorilla he is famous in France and often appears in newslets and movies teaching martial arts techniques Robert Paturel began his professional career as a pastrychef and then as a nightclubdoorman He became a policeman in the French Police Nationale in 1976 He was detached to the Instruction Company in 1980 as an expert in selfdefense He imported the tonfa to France a Japanese baton and codified its use in the official program of the French TonfaSafety Training Formation française de tonfasécurité FFTS with this method being now taught in police academies He joined the élite RAID Research Assistance Intervention Dissuasion in 1988 the polices specialintervention unit where he served for 20 years as an operative operational instructor and then negotiator In 2002 he created the concpet of Boxe de Rue Street Boxing which stems from his practice of combat sports and his experience in the field He also joined the Academy of Combat Arts Académie des arts de combat ADAC of his friend Éric Quequet as Street Boxing Expert in charge of training for TPAI Negotiation Tonfa and Telescopic baton Over the past few years Robert Paturel has acted in several films in which he was often also a technical advisor for themes such as intervention groups combat and boxing but also playing minor roles Those movies include La Vie en rose starring Marion Cotillard as Edith Piaf and Taken 2 starring Liam Neeson He has published eight books including Lesprit du combat and Tonfa sécurité In 2010 Robert wrote his first novel Les panthères noires de Bièvre a work of fiction inspired by his experience with RAID His autobiographical Mémoires du RAID Memories of the RAID was published in 2011 He also wrote the ADAC repository book Boxe de rue techniques et étude comportementale In 2015 Robert published three books The first being Le RAID à lépreuve du feu followed by Boxe de Rue II sensibilisation et défense contre armes ADACs reference book and sequel to the first opus published in 2011 Finally IMPACT 357 Préparation physique pour intégrer les différentes forces dinterventions Police Nationale Armée Sapeurs Pompiers written with Christophe Pourcelot deals with physical preparation for candidates to the different military and paramilitary special forces in France In 2015 Robert Paturel created the site Adrenalibcom through which he offered the first online street boxing courses in order to democratize the learning of selfdefense among the civilian population He also contributes occasionally to the Présentnewspaper In October 2016 he was called to become the spokesperson for the movement of nonunionized police officers during police demonstrations following the Molotov cocktail attack on four officers on 8 October 2016 in ViryChâtillon In the same year Robert participated in the comedy movie Raid Dingue as a selfdefense instructor to the protagonist officer Johanna Pasquali Alice Pol Source Article Robert Paturel from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30