Peach

camp is in session

, 12-29-2008 at 10:07 PM (62 Views)

I went over to the club and did some yoga during drill and an interesting dance/footwork exercise Coach Patty was trying to get people to do. I suited up after that and fenced Mike, Ben, and two fencers who have only recently started doing sabre--Anton and Ella. It was pretty funny because both of them have seen the big banner with my name on it and were a tad too awed. I told Anton he needed to attack me (left-hander with a solid parry and a defensive game--he really should be an epeeist but he likes sabre). Ella was fun to fence--she moved a good deal. I lost by one touch to Mike, but it was an interesting bout. I felt much better after fencing a little; I only stayed until 8:00 because there's too much going on, but it put me in quite a good mood.

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sabreur - 12-30-2008 06:26 AM
Elaborate on dance/footwork exercise?
oiuyt - 12-30-2008 08:34 AM
I know I'm picturing the warm-up routine scene from By the Sword right about now.

-B
Allen Evans - 12-30-2008 10:13 AM
Does it involve a lot of humming?
Peach - 12-30-2008 10:15 AM
Brad - the By the Sword routine was SOMETHING, wasn't it? Oh, gawds.

What Patty did was based on an Indian dance routine she learned recently in which the feet do:
left-right-left-right/right-left-right-left and so on (in other words, count of 4 steps, reversing the order in which the feet are moving by stepping with the same foot to start the next sequence), with clapping on the first and third steps, or the first and second, or half the group clapping on the first step and half the group clapping on the second.

Apparently this style of Indian dance can get quite complex, with the feet doing one thing, the hands doing another, and the face doing something else.

It was one of those cool ideas Mark likes to incorporate into his camp, the idea being that it has parallels to the way your feet are doing one thing and your hand another (and your tempo varying meanwhile) while you are fencing.

It was fun to watch, and quite goofy. Some never got the idea of changing the feet AT all. Clapping on different beats by alternate groups didn't get off the ground. Never seen anything quite so uncoordinated in my life. I didn't even try, myself.
Peach - 12-30-2008 10:16 AM
Allen - no humming. Just a lot of marching feet. I suspect the people in the yoga studio next door were going, "What is THAT?"
KidLazy - 12-30-2008 02:25 PM
Sorry that we couldn't talk long. My mom needed to catch her train shortly. So we just had a quick lunch, then right back to suburban station.
BrianH - 12-30-2008 08:20 PM
Nothing like stabbing/slashing people to take your mind off the real world, eh? I always find it therapeutic.
Peach - 12-30-2008 08:23 PM
Yes, I am VERY fond of stabbing and slashing. Winning is always nice, too, but not necessary.