one trick pony
May. 6th, 2010 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonMy coach's latest "thing" is continuation of action: not parry, riposte, touch, but continuous blade work. I'm acclimating to the drills and better able to physically keep up, especially since I stopped "death gripping" my blade, but the mental aspect is quite another thing.
He's often likened strategy to a computer program: at the on guard position, put in the program, and let intuition "run" it when I'm actually fencing. I'm at the point where a single action is automatic, but compound actions make me start thinking while fencing and it all falls apart.
This is doubly troublesome as a bout is not a drill, and I can't know what's coming next. When that happens I'll do one of several things, none of them helpful: 1) repeat previous action (furious sawing remises!) 2) freeze (and get hit) or 3) stinkin' thinkin', which causes whatever I think of to implode.
Truth is I've got one shot - I don't have a tidy "if then else" statement cranking in my head that my lizard brain can refer to. The drilling is to make the loop intuitive, but FRACK the process is slow! My own habit of rigid thinking isn't helping make the decisions I need to make in situ - or rather, perceive and execute naturally.
Still hammering away....
He's often likened strategy to a computer program: at the on guard position, put in the program, and let intuition "run" it when I'm actually fencing. I'm at the point where a single action is automatic, but compound actions make me start thinking while fencing and it all falls apart.
This is doubly troublesome as a bout is not a drill, and I can't know what's coming next. When that happens I'll do one of several things, none of them helpful: 1) repeat previous action (furious sawing remises!) 2) freeze (and get hit) or 3) stinkin' thinkin', which causes whatever I think of to implode.
Truth is I've got one shot - I don't have a tidy "if then else" statement cranking in my head that my lizard brain can refer to. The drilling is to make the loop intuitive, but FRACK the process is slow! My own habit of rigid thinking isn't helping make the decisions I need to make in situ - or rather, perceive and execute naturally.
Still hammering away....
