It was a good sabre night, with qatet, Will, Mike, Charlotte, and Tom. qatet and I were going to drill, and everyone joined in, so I just did pair drills of straight attack, figuring everyone could use it. We sure could! One of us waves it around, one starts foot before hand, one attacks high from a raised shoulder, and so on. To change partners, we did the standard "rotate" I learned, which is to move one to the right.

Then, because there seemed to be no foilists, ...

My husband would prefer not to give up half a day of work to take me to my appointment tomorrow so I drove about a mile, walked for three minutes, and drove back.

If there was a way I could drive without using my leg, this would work. I am just not up to it yet.

Who wants to bet that I wind up driving myself anyway?

Pt is making almost no progress now and still hurts like hell but I am about ready to throw away the painters tape marking the minimum ...

So, should have been to the Open in Birmingham but could not go. Took the coaching seminar, which was really, really great, and I got a lot of feedback and inspiration and am very eager to work with my students again, especially my little "star" who has been giving me problems, coaching-wise. I talked a lot of the issues through with the fencing master who was teaching us, and everything is great.

I also did a couple of hours' "teaching" at a refereeing seminar. ...

I stopped using the crutches on Thursday, but the knee's still sore. There is some lateral bruising around the patella and along the lateral portion of the joint, but nothing too terrible. It was a little sore before my lesson, but still had a good lesson tonight. Worked on some real simple slow/relaxed touches to the wrist w/ parry-riposte, counter attacks, and ended with the usual retreating parry-riposte bit. My issue was with the brain-farts (as usual) when it came to longer runs of parry-riposte ...

I haven't been on this website in a long time and it feels good to be back. But that's not why I'm blogging,I have not fenced in 3 weeks. I have been on a school trip in Europe the past 3 weeks. We went to germany, austria, france, and the czech republic. It was possibly the best 3 weeks of my life but there was definately something missing. Other than the week of school that I missed, I missed my intense fencing lessons, I missed correcting my mistakes, I missed the speed of a match, and I missed ...