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Last week’s videos 14 comments
How to Watch a Fight 7 comments
Thanks to Dame Roz, videos of fighting from Midnight at the Oasis are available on her blog. I’ve been puzzling over a bit of instruction (recall that this was, originally, supposed to be a vaguely instructional blog targeted at my students, for whatever limping mutant it’s since become) on the topic of how to observe […]
Holiday Faire, or rather, No Holiday Faire 1 comment
Despite my desires, I could not make it to Holiday Faire this year. Quel domage, I was looking forward to rolling up there and kicking ass in at least one tournament (“Single Sword” hell yes!). But talking with Dante just before the event (hooray technology) did remind me about how I was fighting a year […]
Other People’s Stuff: Walter’s Rules 1 comment
Rufus Piggeboye (mka Walter Triplette) has a blackboard in his salle, whereupon has been write Walter’s Rules. I will not be trying to develop Wistric’s Rules of One-on-one any time soon, because Walter has done the job far more thoroughly and clearly than I ever could. Something about being a professional fencing coach and vendor […]
Musings: An Unpleasant Realization 3 comments
It’s damnably strange to say this here of all places, but melee has lost a lot of its charm for me. I really can’t say I missed fighting at WotW, and at practice I find I’d much rather work on my tourney game than on melee. Maybe I’ve just been off the wagon for too […]
Question for the Readers: The Arms Race 11 comments
Since I won’t be fencing this week, thereby depriving me of anything to talk about, I thought I would just stay silent. But then I realized that was just not gonna happen. So I have a couple of questions for the readership, and would especially love to hear from non-Atlantians: 1) What is the median* […]
Inter-kingdom Anthropology: Drachenwald 4 comments
Last week I was, unfortunately, over the Atlantic in business class instead of at Thursday rapier practice, and was in Stockholm instead of at the event on Saturday, but rather than weep over my lost opportunities to stab friends, I decided to go make new friends and stab them. So, Saturday morning I ventured forth […]
Other Peoples’ Stuff: Pushing Back Against the Doomsayers Leave a comment
Sir Corby has a post up about how the UVa practice got to where it is today. Worth a read, especially in the local light of “how are we going to get a presence on campus”
Question for the Masses: Mutual improvement 5 comments
The three main fighters down in Attilium each have separately come to me and said that they want to get better but they feel like at practice they just end up fighting each other over and over. I provided my own thoughts to them, but am curious as to the thoughts of everybody else: How […]
Wistric’s Weekly Musical Interlude 3 comments
In honor of my aching thenar and hypothenar areas… I love rattan hafts I love blue closed cell foam I love gorilla tape And when a blow strikes home I love my polearm Fuerch-ten-un-ab-wend-bar Boom di-yadda boom di-yadda boom di-yadda boom di-yadda