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My 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....

a fistful of linkage

Attn. Naughty knitters and other yarn sorts: vree has an icon for you.

ladyaelfwynn discusses fanfic as an expected and even transformative act after an overwrought author compared fanfic to someone stealing her husband(?!) Further linkage here, complete with long list of published works that could arguably qualify as fanfic. (Full disclaimer: I read part of one of the overwrought author's books. It was ok, I guess - I wasn't interested enough to finish and actually found the botany more interesting than the characters).

Off LJ:

Can You Update Pulp Science Fiction Without Being F-ed Up? - I certainly hope so because while the cheese is grand some of the stereotyping is jawdroppingly awful.

Tor Books blog is rereading Cherryh's Atevi series: Foreginer; Invader. Reading these to refresh my mind as I left off at #4 2 years ago and #11 (!) is just out.

They're also rewatching Firefly....