W/Istvan. 1. M invite 5. S cut 3. M cut 3. S parry 3, cut 3. 2. M invite 3, S cut 4, M cut 4, S parry 4, cut 4. Standing, w/advance. 3. Distance game a. M invites 5 or 3, S attacks 3 or 4 w/advance-lunge, pursuing if M opens distance. b. M attacks, S stop cut, parry-riposte. 4. M invites 5, S cuts 3, M cuts 3, S parry 3, cut 3, cut to wrist, M cut 5, S parry 5, cut chest (pull through). That's ...
Mannheim, last night. NH brought his almost-six-year-old daughter. who had a grand time whacking Dad on the head, poking one of the older coaches with a foil, and generally being a really cute little girl. We did the standard warm-up drills, plus wall drills, then fenced fairly casually. In general, fenced MUCH better than last week and MUCH MUCH better than the week before. Still need to do some solo footwork a couple times a week, to get body control/feel back where it needs to ...
Mannheim last night. NH and AL present. We drilled, and were slightly less rusty than last week. The sun was streaming in the windows, which essentially makes one end of the sabre strips unfenceable (this happens every summer), but no one was there other than the three of us, so we fenced dry the length of the hall (perpendicular to the sun). And to make it amusing, we fenced pre-electric rules (fleches, cross-overs and old rules about tempo). It was highly ...
Trained for the first time in five weeks. NH. Drilled, then fenced. Woefully out of shape for fencing, despite being good shape overall. Explosive leg strength, reactions, etc. are in the toilet. Maybe, if I can manage to train regularly for a month or so, I'll be approaching normalcy. No master, so no lesson.
Lessons w/Istvan last weekend and the weekend before. Training in Mannheim with AH and a lesson with Alex. Damned if I can remember any of it. Part of the reason is that the lessons with Istvan are becoming more and more combative--less mechanical repetition and lots of variations. Makes it hard to remember. However, it isn't so important to remember exactly what occurred as it is to keep the basic pattern in mind: act, look, respond. For instance: ...
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