Spent an hour at the gym after driving in the rush-hour snow, so wasn’t keen on going to WCU last night. 8pm rolled around and figured what the heck. Dropped off Coach Mike’s 3-in-1 buzzer. He loves it. We did an epee match and he’s hooked on fencing electric again.

Ran two some new students through 4-6. Parry, then parry-riposte, then at distances. Back and forth. Good drills but I miss the days of playing tic-tac drills. That drill seems to have fallen by the wayside. Start slow then build the repetition until it sounds like a sewing machine.

Fenced with Dan ‘Da Man!’ in some foil. Back hip is acting wonky, so took it a little easy. Also tried some absence of blade; kept the blade on my outside, almost in the other strip. When he attacked, parry-riposte. Or he came in distance, let the hand guide the blade in. Worked well. Need to try it against Coach Mike or Paul because everyone is different. Coach Mike has more experience and won’t fall for the distance and Paul whupped me last week.

Started getting serious about the Liberty match on March 11. It’s a combo-event, $55 for both or $35 individual weapon. I’d go to the Bucks West but one of the Y students may go to the Y12 Foil portion of the Liberty match. The preregistered Mixed Epee (open) has alot of Swarthmore fencers. The BCAF West has 2A, 1B and 2Cs preregistered. Less of a chance of getting my clock cleaned at Liberty that day..

Still need to check if I need the foil bib-lame. It doesn’t look like the rule takes effect until Aug 2012, so I should be good for the near-term.

Back to the grind.