getting small
Apr. 4th, 2007 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonTonight I fenced at one of the many Other Fencing Clubs in my locale.
I'm noticing a trend, which I think I've commented on before....
When I'm fencing someone much taller than me (like the college fencer from this evening, who was a 6 foot something beanpole), a good strategy is to drop low and go under their blade.
With this philosophy in mind, not only did I score touches, but I performed the lowest, longest lunges I think I've ever done - no timid half-lunge, half-leans, I mean serious drops where my back knee is almost on the ground (!)
This is thanks to off-strip squats and the pigeon pose, which is slowly stretching out my (whatever the muscle in the inner thigh is called) and strengthening the stabilizing muscles around my knees so I'm not so terrified I'm going to land badly and tear my kneecap out.
Mind, I may not be able to walk tomorrow, but DAMN it's nice to know I can do that, at least some of the time!
To see fencers who can do really extraordinary things, check out FencingPhotos.Com - those are the Big Kids I dare not play with.
I'm noticing a trend, which I think I've commented on before....
When I'm fencing someone much taller than me (like the college fencer from this evening, who was a 6 foot something beanpole), a good strategy is to drop low and go under their blade.
With this philosophy in mind, not only did I score touches, but I performed the lowest, longest lunges I think I've ever done - no timid half-lunge, half-leans, I mean serious drops where my back knee is almost on the ground (!)
This is thanks to off-strip squats and the pigeon pose, which is slowly stretching out my (whatever the muscle in the inner thigh is called) and strengthening the stabilizing muscles around my knees so I'm not so terrified I'm going to land badly and tear my kneecap out.
Mind, I may not be able to walk tomorrow, but DAMN it's nice to know I can do that, at least some of the time!
To see fencers who can do really extraordinary things, check out FencingPhotos.Com - those are the Big Kids I dare not play with.
