anotheranon | fantasy weekend: active

More LJ tagging unearthed last year's saber seminar. Has it really been a year already? I remember that weekend vividly - I was dehydrated and hungry through half of each day and starving by the end, frustrated when I messed up, thrilled when I did a move right, endured my sweaty stinking self during the hour drive home and couldn't walk properly for a week afterwards.

It was awesome!!

Fantasy weekend: Quiet resort somewhere with minimal distractions and excellent quality fencing strips/equipment. Weather: coolish - early spring or mid fall. Location: mountains or somewhere else that has mist on the ground in the morning.

Day1:
Morning: Rise around 8, light breakfast. Warmup/footwork/fencing training for a couple of hours. Water break. Fence another couple of hours, lunch.

Post lunch: practice what we've learned in open bouts for a couple of hours. Water available throughout

Late afternoon: long hot shower followed by deep tissue massage, and possibly a nap.

Evening: Meet friends for good, protien-laden dinner and a couple of hours of good conversation. Conversation continues during chilly walk in the setting sun, admiring the scenery.

Night: pass out into blissful, well-deserved sleep.

Day 2: Same as Day 1, but with more warmup, more water, and breaking earlier for shower/massage. Luscious dinner again, followed by shopping for fencing equipment, swords, knives, armor, and related.