Peaking for a top athletic performance requires a very long term plan, an understanding of your body's limits and capacities, and an informed willingness to persist. And the trust that it will work. And the wisdom to know that you might come down with the flu, or miss your plane, or pull a muscle, or hit an opponent who is exactly the wrong person, and all your efforts, no matter how perfect, might not work. Last year in France one of my earlier DE's I won 10-9. It could very easily have gone ...
This is something I started really thinking about while I was at coaches college, and what are advantages and disadvantages of both of them. There is 1 clear nice advantage of an inverse advance. That is that you can take that first half step with the back foot, and then decide if you want to finish it as an advance or a lunge. This is a very nice thing for foil or sabre. After thinking about it more for a few days, I don't see much advantage of it at all in epee. So much ...
This is something I started really thinking about while I was at coaches college, and what are advantages and disadvantages of both of them. There is 1 clear nice advantage of an inverse advance. That is that you can take that first half step with the back foot, and then decide if you want to finish it as an advance or a lunge. This is a very nice thing for foil or sabre. After thinking about it more for a few days, I don't see much advantage of it at all in epee. So ...
I have hit a new low. I woke up this morning shaking. I was having one of my “Barrow dreams.” And unlike many oriental massages, this did not have a “happy ending.” I went through so many scenarios of me flying over to Barrow on my own to have the surgery, to me collapsing dramatically and riding the ambulance to my local hospital where my local surgeon said in a pinch he can do the craniotomy to stop the blood flow but he wouldn’t begin to do the reconstructive work I need to have ...
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