More Fencing
Feb. 6th, 2011 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_v_lynchGentle Readers,
I'm still sick but I made it to 2 fencing practices. The first was this morning at the freeplay class. No one else showeded up so Craig walked me through a bunch of long sword stuff he been working on. We've been talking about the tournament at longpoint and the fact that the majority of the attacks in the tournament were not quality attacks. there was a great deal of hand attacks, extended reach leg attacks and downright blows with lots of follow through (people were constantly being reminded not to hit the floor). When attacks did go past first intention, they tended to be weak. We looked at options against that, many of which seemed like they could be very succesful. We also explored the Misterhauw and weather the step was away from or towards the cut.
Awesome stuff.
This evening was the Capo Ferro class and we built up actions from the basic entry.
First Stringer and lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere and respond with timed lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere which transforms into lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere-lunge which is countered with counter extension.
Then step with the Cavere-lunge to prevent the coutner extension
Goal was working entry and timing. I need to clean up footwork and hand position.
But now I need to let my rummy ginger tea do it's job and go to sleep.
Good Night.
I'm still sick but I made it to 2 fencing practices. The first was this morning at the freeplay class. No one else showeded up so Craig walked me through a bunch of long sword stuff he been working on. We've been talking about the tournament at longpoint and the fact that the majority of the attacks in the tournament were not quality attacks. there was a great deal of hand attacks, extended reach leg attacks and downright blows with lots of follow through (people were constantly being reminded not to hit the floor). When attacks did go past first intention, they tended to be weak. We looked at options against that, many of which seemed like they could be very succesful. We also explored the Misterhauw and weather the step was away from or towards the cut.
Awesome stuff.
This evening was the Capo Ferro class and we built up actions from the basic entry.
First Stringer and lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere and respond with timed lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere which transforms into lunge.
Then Stringer to draw Cavere-lunge which is countered with counter extension.
Then step with the Cavere-lunge to prevent the coutner extension
Goal was working entry and timing. I need to clean up footwork and hand position.
But now I need to let my rummy ginger tea do it's job and go to sleep.
Good Night.
