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Fencing Frustration
Feb. 20th, 2012 09:22 amGentle Readers,
Yesterday we went off to Kingston to check out their Sunday practice and, ideally, get some additional practice against people I don't regularly fence with. On the plus side there was one fencer who had the gear to play. On the down side, there was only one fencer there with the kit to play.
There were a couple others who showed up with stuff but no full kit so they couldn't play. I had some good conversations with them about longsword though so that was cool.
The one gentleman I did fence with was a less experienced fencer and greedily absorbed the information I gave him. Too well in fact as he was able to use it against me with a fair amount of skill. There were two flaws of mine that he rapidly learned to take advantage of. The first was when I was just farting around trying to do something for no real purpose. The second was when I let go of the parry. And this was good. These were both things that I shouldn't be doing and he should be taking advantage of when I did.
Things that did work included any actions that involved interposing my sword between his and me and moving into distance transferring the his sword to my off hand.
Today, sewing and probably some drilling.
Yesterday we went off to Kingston to check out their Sunday practice and, ideally, get some additional practice against people I don't regularly fence with. On the plus side there was one fencer who had the gear to play. On the down side, there was only one fencer there with the kit to play.
There were a couple others who showed up with stuff but no full kit so they couldn't play. I had some good conversations with them about longsword though so that was cool.
The one gentleman I did fence with was a less experienced fencer and greedily absorbed the information I gave him. Too well in fact as he was able to use it against me with a fair amount of skill. There were two flaws of mine that he rapidly learned to take advantage of. The first was when I was just farting around trying to do something for no real purpose. The second was when I let go of the parry. And this was good. These were both things that I shouldn't be doing and he should be taking advantage of when I did.
Things that did work included any actions that involved interposing my sword between his and me and moving into distance transferring the his sword to my off hand.
Today, sewing and probably some drilling.
