I feel pretty good today. Just a few twinges here and there. Rare for the day after a tournament, especially for a tournament where I drove two hours each way, with seven hours spent at the venue.

Mike, Jessi1, and Will told me they had a good time at the Liberty Fencing Club Sabre Open. Jessi was 5th, Will was 2nd, and Mike was 1st. The event went from a B to a D, unfortunately, so Mike couldn't re-up his B (he's down to a C these days, I think) Will beat Jessi by 1 touch ...

The first time I saw these, I thought they were plantar warts but they're not, they're tumors that grow inside on the plantar fascia and they simply look like the beginning of a wart.

I had the same problem a couple of years ago, used duct tape for a while, and eventually the problem lessened such that I didn't notice them. Two weekends ago, I drove to TN and fenced three events and then last week, I drove 3 hrs. north to fence two events.

If I succeed in finishing ...

I motored down to the Baltimore Fencing Center for the Choco Therapy Open, as planned, and got there with plenty of time to spare. I warmed up with Brooke Sirico from DCFC, who is a nice fencer, and felt that even if that was the only bout I got with a woman it was worth it.

The foil event was still in pools, though, and they finished up the pools and much of the DE's before they started the sabre. Jamie Met was there to referee, and he's a solid sabre ref, but that was it, and we ...

Decided to build a parry weapon for a couple of reasons:
- Need an off-hand parry weapon for two-handed SCA-type
- Some students just aren't getting that the forte and guard are adequate for defense.

So I built this from a broken saber.



Trimmed the blade way down. Drilled a rubber stopper, painted it red and glued it on.

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I took a 1st place medal at the epee event I went to today. Weren't enough folks for a rating bump but its always nice to get a gold.

I got the Learning to Fence Epee video.

Not bad for showing technical moves. Some parts of it were interesting. For example on the part on using the french grip epee the video said you should never ever hold it in the manner used to pommel.

I've been having fun pommelling lately with the french grip so I found that ...