Yes, something actually melee related. On Saturday, the Canton of Attillium hosted a war practice, and His Excellency, Letia, Miguel (taking a weekend off from his studies in the great university city of Asheville), and I trucked down to the site for Tournoi d’Amity Island to work melee (His Ex with the armored fighters, me […]
Archive for February 2010
Wistric’s Weekly Warfare 32: Melee Training Cheat Sheet 6 comments
Tournament of Ymir 22 comments
Rather than working up to it, I’ll just start off by saying I am cranky about my Ymir. I am disappointed in myself, really, and it has made me mopey for the past two days. We’ll see if I can’t kick that funk on Tuesday. Anyway, needed to get that out so I didn’t dwell […]
Journal 2/8/10 7 comments
There’s a real post kicking around somewhere in the back of my mind, but it may not make it out this month. We’ll see. Meanwhile, yet another motto for me, from Caelia: “Everybody knows you’d fight on a flaming garbage heap in a hailstorm” (This goes along with the official motto “Poena stultus corpore digrediens […]
Fencing Journal 2/1/2010 1 comment
There was no practice Tuesday. It was kinda, like, snow-covered. Still. And soaking wet. And cold. Good times. State of the Union February 2nd being my 29th birthday, I decided to start a tradition and go get a physical. It’d only been… half a lifetime or so since my last one. Along with all the […]
Thoughts on Teaching (and Learning) Pt. 2 7 comments
Greetings, gentles, Dreya/Caelia here again. Thanks for returning for the second installment on teaching and learning. Last week I proposed some ideas on how to go about approaching brand-new fencers with an emphasis on creating a comfortable space for those who may be feeling particularly self-conscious or unsure (sadly, this tends to be new female […]