There's not much opportunity for fencing here in Ithaca, but I do manage to fence one night a week for about two hours.
I'm grateful for the chance to fence, but whatever progress I had has slowed to a snail's pace or stopped all together. I'm not getting any coaching now (not that I had much to begin with) and I fence roughly the same two people every Wednesday.
They're good fencers (one is way better than me, and I have a lot I can learn from him) and I enjoy myself, but I find that I'm getting frustrated anyway with my progress. Before I started here, I hadn't fenced for roughly four months. I started to get the hang of things once I started fencing again, but I still feel that I'm fencing below my previous level.
I do footwork on my own when I work out (which is four times a week), but my problems are primarily distance-related. I'm not sure how to practice my distance without a partner.
03-14-2007 08:07 PM