miscellanea and - you guessed it

[anotheranon]

Had a very lengthy and frustrating lesson last night. V. has decided that we "speak the same fencing language" now and is pushing more. My touches weren't strong or focused enough so we kept working on it for about an hour.

This will be good in the long run but is frustrating in the short. I do need to work on focusing all my energy into landing but I also need the strength to really go. I'm doing some exercises B. recommended to strengthen my hips and waist but I still have lead in my pants so strong trajectory in either direction is still largely eluding me. Though, if I get irritated enough I do feel a strong urge to hit something or someone very hard indeed, that kinda destroys focus :P

One shiny gem of strategy I took away last night: it is easier to switch from defensive to offensive than the other way around. This is why when I go on the offensive my attacks tank almost every time - it's easier to fence defensively and choose a moment than go all out and not protect myself.

Feints. Yeah. Still working on those.

Don't know whether I'm fencing harder, I'm just cold or perhaps I'm run-down in general, but I'm eating and sleeping more. I'm embarrassed to admit that slept almost (over?) 12 hours last night, and the pancakes I had this morning around 2 will surely burn off in another hour or so.

It's just as well - between training this week followed immediately by NAC next weekend, last night might be my last sleeping-in for a couple of weeks!

Edit: Fixed unclosed italics and reverse the offensive & defensive. Never post while distracted, overslept bah kids :P

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[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I hear you on the 12 hours of sleep..but I can't blame it on fencing or the weather. I think I can blame it on the time of the year perhaps, I seem to remember sleeping longer in february in general. If I let it, my body would like 12 hours every night nowadays, I really hope that will change, because it's a bitch in the mornings...