My cousin weighs MAYBE 72 lbs at 14, maybe about 5'4"? Doctors found protein and sugar in her urine. While female bodies absorb calcium until 24-25 years of age, I'm afraid she's already missed most of her critical window for growth. Putting sunscreen on her back was sad, scary. I can already see her slipping and breaking something at a very young age. She didn't understand why I made her eat egg yolks at breakfast. I wonder how they teach nutrition over there. I only had two days to ...
Fencing tonight was just pure joy. Well... sort of. It was just practice and instead of concentratiing on what I should to working upon, I just sort of let go and had fun. Pure joy. Sometimes, I concentrating so hard on trying to master a particular manuever that I forget whey I'm doing this. It's just pure fun. Of course, it would be much more fun if my skill level was higher and I won all the touches. Saturday, back to work. On ...
Last night, I dreamed that many of the veterans got together someplace not remembered for a clinic and informal competition for the primary purpose of preparaing for the world cup. Some of us, including me, who weren't going were also there and after fencing, we gathered in someone's house to watch videos and talk until after nightfall. It was a weird dream in many ways that captured my bittersweet feelings. It's not that I want to go to Moscow; it's that I want to be fencing at the ...
Mark is away in Hungary. Hareem A. & Steve K. were driving down to visit us, and Jessi1 did a Facebook message to make sure people were going to be there, so I cancelled a plan to go to the shore overnight and came to fencing. Hareem & Steve didn't show up until almost 8:30, and Dave M., who said on Facebook that he was excited about seeing Steve, didn't show up at all. A couple of people fenced sabre who are primarily foil (Nick and a new guy, Kevin). Kiersten, Tim, Tate, Jessi1, Mike ...
As I said in my last blog, I've been thinking alot about coaching, and things to do that would take elements from multiple of the coaches I've interacted with this summer. So I wrote a lesson and posted it in this entry. My coach often does a variation off of the same drill. Student is attacking, and will finish with a set number of disengages with a lunge. Say its 1 disengage. Initially the student with make advance with feint (starting from a normal engarde), and lunge on the ...
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