fencing: handicap

[anotheranon]

I think I've had my first "sports injury" (or, at any rate, the first to impact my game).

Over the weekend I did deep lunges with weights to try and work on improving the depth of my fencing lunge, and I think I overdid it a bit: by the end of warmup tonight the inner thigh of my front leg was rather sore.

I powered on through drills and some free fencing, putting more weight on my back leg and focusing on bladework. Pro: bladework using my thumb and forefinger rather than my whole hand/shoulder is continuing to improve my game! Con: need to work on finger strength, because the blade keeps getting knocked out of my hand.

Drills: first lesson included straight attack and disengages from one line to another (Wikipedia's fencing terminology entry - wish it had pictures but is better than nothing). New bladework using only fingers requires a lot less effort than my old way of doing it.

Now to go shower and rub Icy Hot on stretched bits.

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[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Leg feeling better today, but I'll likely put a cold compress on it anyway to see if I can't speed recovery even more.

DO have fun at your new fitness club, and post about it!