Yeah, I wasn't feeling it and I wanted to stay home, but Wednesday is my lesson night so I went anyway.

Lesson: gallop, when coach claps, do pitter-patter, when coach claps again, do advance-lunge. Or gallop backwards, do pitter-patter, when coach claps again, do jump-back.

Sounds odd, but throwing a pitter-patter in there from time to time in my bouts actually worked, even with Will, qatet, and Mike. It would place me at the exact right distance to see how an ...

We had a good turnout tonight--Simon, Mike, Will, Tom, and qatet, plus Lucas (foilist) suited up and fenced sabre (in my old lamé). It's almost March, so I figured I had better skip the bosu ball workout and focus on bouting for the next three weeks. I fenced everyone except Lucas, and fenced qatet twice.

Fencing some clubmates is interesting because they change. Fencing some others can get a little predictable. A comment someone passed last week made me realize that while I ...

Tonight, there were no parking spots in the area. I ended up, after about twenty minutes of fruitless driving, parking in a spot about six inches longer than my car. Mike was there, and qatet, and Dick, and Tim. The other Tom, the foilist, also joined us briefly.

Tim (one of the juniors) continues not to attack. He would come forward making a false threat and twice I'd step back, while the third time I'd attack into his prep.

While I was fencing qatet, I kept ...

I was stiff today because I lifted yesterday and had the weights set a little high on the adduction machine. I also discovered that my gym has a Bosu ball, and danced around on it yesterday for a while. One of the guys that works at the gym came over and was about to tell me that I should have my feet more symmetrically placed, and then remembered (perhaps reminded by my T-shirt) that I am a fencer. he went and got me a weighted stick (4 lbs) so I could use that while I was dancing. I probably ...

The age group events at SN are on the 30th of June and the IA is the 3rd of July, so I'll be spending a boatload on the hotel, as usual. I reserved the hotel room. Now I have other questions, which will doubtless be answered in the fullness of time:

I can't find the qualification list for the I-A, but I finished 7th at the Charm City ROC so I am assuming I'm qualified.

I don't know whether I should bother to do the I-A. Probably not. But I do want to go to Disneyland, ...