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I have discovered what the most insidious wound a fencer can have: an abrasion on the instep (the arch) of the back foot. That is the last time i will ever try to fence in dress socks. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ENOUGH!!
No, it was not enough. I tore skin where the arch support of my new shoes dug into one of the few parts of my feet that is not callused like whoa. Now, it's friggin agony to lunge hard. It's impossible for me to go from full tilt retreat to advance. My nervous system goes in to
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This is another recap of annoying and funny things i have done, or have witnessed happening.
I was watching a friends WF bout at a D1 NAC. There was some fencing, and then a green light goes on. The person who was scored upon stands there and says very matter of factly "I'm sorry, but she did not touch me." What!? Oh is that how it works now? Someone touches you and you're allowed to decide whether or not it actually happened? That's great.
A guy i knew was reffing epee. I decided to ch
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I felt like a fat panda fencing the last two weeks. I went on vacation and ate just the most ridiculously delicious/fattening foods for 2 weeks. Then I came back and immediately fenced the Duel and a NAC.
My cardio and my muscular seem to be completely disjoined, and that was interesting to me. At these two tournaments, my movement was just as fast before the break, but i becamse winded so easily it made me upset. My muscles still had the strength and explosiveness, but my heart and lungs we
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There's spot along my jaw that is protected by bib, not by the mesh. That part got flicked, and my lower mandible is still in pain. I feel like i took a left hook from a butch girl, or a wuss boy. Highly uncomfortable.
One time i got a flick riposte to the vertebrae that always gets in the way when i'm squatting with a bar. I was honestly thinking about what kind of wheelchair I was going to have to buy if a doctor told me i was going to be paralyzed.
Couple people hit me back about my blog earlier. Thanks to all for the feedback. I thought I’d get into this issue of screwed up bends in my blades, and what that indicates, because it might be important.
Noodle pointed out that he typically finishes with good bends in his blades. He said it might be attributed to his followthrough. I think about what I’ve seen from his fencing, and I agree. He has a lot of flow in his final actions, and good followthrough. He and I had a coach who espoused
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I've been getting into my own head lately. Couple of times, i'll work on clearing my mind and getting the perfect lunge. A perfect lunge means something different to someone who's been fencing for 6yrs than it does to someone fencing for 6months, btw. Anyway, i'm playing out situations in my head, and trying to get the most dynamite lunges I can, and upon execution, i find that my )(&*^&* blade bends the wrong way like 75% of the time when I hit a wall or dummy. This should not be. Having the b
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Holy moly. I had a lot of asparagus with this flank steak. It was seasoned in peppercorn or something. That combination produces the most RANK smell when it's coming out in liquid form. Geeze louise.
You know what's also abnormal?
Getting it handed to you by a 15 year old boy in fencing.
Getting it handed to you by a 15 year old girl in fencing.
Eating .5 lb of Brie with an Alsace wine.
People who tell me they fence, and i ask them what weapon, and they say they "USED" to fence a
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Funny, how fickle coaches can be. Last saturday, there was a local tournament. The week leading up to the tournament, he said i should relax. Use the tournament as a way to practice the drills i learned. Fence loose. Work on form. Work on clarity of mind. Then we get to the tournament. He takes one look a around at the competitors, and tells me I need to get my act together and fence to win.
lol.
These kinds of mind games are quite confusing to me. I still don't know why he had the chang
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I've been making a list of things that keep me from dominating a tournament. Hopefully i'll remember to correct them. Hopefully you'll learn from them. These aren't in any meaningful order btw.
1. Overconfidence, and screwing around in the pools, getting too many touches against, and then getting placed 2nd instead of 1st.
2. Overconfidence, and getting ambushed by some kid with straight gypsy tactics.
3. Hot ref's. I can't keep my elbow in and land a flick to save mankind when all the
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