fencing thinking
Jan. 8th, 2006 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI've had a good couple of fencing days this week :)
Thursday foil: somehow, I was just in the zone. Hard to describe but I'm sure it's true of any sport: you get on guard and feel confident, powerful, calm. I won most of my bouts, and got to fence two new people. We got to talking about how long we've been fencing, and I realized with a shock that I've been at it 5 years (!) this month. Time flies, and all of that... I probably should get on the ball about budgeting for an electric set!
Today's rapier: again, more on-the-ball-edness. It's been a slow process because the historic group only meets locally a couple of times a month, and though I had no earth-shattering insights, it was definitely some of my better form today. My on guard position feels more natural and the whole process is starting to feel more instinctual. I still have some foil habits that don't help me with rapier; there's a difference between fencer thinking and swordsman(woman) thinking: in the former, you wait for your opponent's feet to move before you do anything. In a martial art, if they so much as twitch, kill em :P
Overall health: getting back into my former habits. I'm aspiring to: lower body weight work once a week, upper body once a week, at least twice on the stationary bike, at least one fencing night, and at least one session of solo footwork/blade drills (where applicable).
Maybe to spice things up indoor rock climbing, if I 1) actually schedule a lesson to try it and 2) actually enjoy it. I imagine it might be a more creative version of strength training.
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nminusone, it IS possible to bout (albeit very gently) with your lightsaber. I know, I saw someone go up against a heavily padded German longsword today, sound effects and all :)
Thursday foil: somehow, I was just in the zone. Hard to describe but I'm sure it's true of any sport: you get on guard and feel confident, powerful, calm. I won most of my bouts, and got to fence two new people. We got to talking about how long we've been fencing, and I realized with a shock that I've been at it 5 years (!) this month. Time flies, and all of that... I probably should get on the ball about budgeting for an electric set!
Today's rapier: again, more on-the-ball-edness. It's been a slow process because the historic group only meets locally a couple of times a month, and though I had no earth-shattering insights, it was definitely some of my better form today. My on guard position feels more natural and the whole process is starting to feel more instinctual. I still have some foil habits that don't help me with rapier; there's a difference between fencer thinking and swordsman(woman) thinking: in the former, you wait for your opponent's feet to move before you do anything. In a martial art, if they so much as twitch, kill em :P
Overall health: getting back into my former habits. I'm aspiring to: lower body weight work once a week, upper body once a week, at least twice on the stationary bike, at least one fencing night, and at least one session of solo footwork/blade drills (where applicable).
Maybe to spice things up indoor rock climbing, if I 1) actually schedule a lesson to try it and 2) actually enjoy it. I imagine it might be a more creative version of strength training.
Further note:
nminusone, it IS possible to bout (albeit very gently) with your lightsaber. I know, I saw someone go up against a heavily padded German longsword today, sound effects and all :)
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Date: 2006-01-09 03:54 am (UTC)The wrists are an obvious and exposed target with lightsabers, as they are with broadswords. But at least broadswords have the crossguards.