Story from a veteran fencer who does robotic surgery for his day job as a physician assistant. He says he and the surgeon both will be operating these very long arms on this million-dollar machine, both arms going into the patient's body, and every once in a while the arms get crossed so he has to tell the surgeon what to do to get out of the situation. He has taken to saying "circle-six" or "circle-four," and of course they have no clue what he's talking about but it works. ...
I am posting this in my journal as I would like to have an intelligent discussion with my friends that read this blog rather than tossing it out to the hordes in the General Discussion forum. I have been accused on a couple of occasions of “holding back” during practice sessions. Not malicious accusations, just friendly bent noses, so to speak. It seems that when folks beat me in friendly 5-touch bouts during practice, then I beat them in a tournament setting, they get the idea ...
I now have 100% mobility in the left knee and NO swelling. Unfortunately, my strengths test show a drop in performance and my left knee strength is at 60% the capability of the right leg. Thus, I need to exercise the left leg and stop exercising the right until there is less of a discrepency between the two. No lunging for me, yet. No fencing. Grrrrrrrr.... This also means no Sectionals so my next plan is to visit the OTHER local club and maybe ...
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