Five turns in one life.
Told the way he told it. Where the record is thin, we say so rather than fill the gap.
A tennis player who was about to stop being one.
He was a keen competitive player. A knee injury took that away, and French medicine could not resolve it. On his travels in Asia he was treated by a practitioner of Chinese medicine. The knee improved, and he played competitively again. By his own account, that was the turn.
He came to this from industry, not medicine.
A trilingual engineer with an international career: heavy vehicles at Willeme, then precision instruments at Jaeger. A man who sold measuring instruments for a living built one, then built a protocol around measuring with it.
Classical texts on one side, modern science on the other.
Roughly a decade of study: oriental medicine, classical Taoist material at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the physics and biology he already had. Two languages, describing the same body. (From ACMOS’s own biography; not independently confirmed.)
He stopped researching and started a company.
SBJ International was registered in Paris in May 1985: research, training and equipment. From there he developed the ACMOS Method and its instruments.
A protocol, a toolkit, and a family that still runs it.
He died in 2019, aged 82. SBJ International is still active in Paris, run by his son Antoine since 2018. In 2010 he received a Gold Medal from the Societe d’Encouragement au Progres.