Getting my mojo back
Jul. 18th, 2017 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusApologies to anyone who followed me expecting fannish stuff - it'll happen, as sure as eggs is eggs, but at the moment I just seem to have more to say about fencing than anything else. *shrugs*
As you can imagine, I was asked to relate my competition experience at practice last week and my coach did say that he'd seen me do a nice parry-riposte in one of the poule fights, so that was something. We've got a couple of epee competitions coming up in September and we're also trying to organise a tournament with other area clubs so I'm afraid there'll be more posts about fencing as those roll around...
Anyway, last week at practice one of the teenage regulars decided to ask me to fight foil with him. This is a lad who usually fights epee and who I think has me pegged as 'will give me a bit of a work-out but I can still beat her easily', which is pretty accurate. I think I took him to 15-11 on a really good day but the gap is more usually about 6-7 hits. We were fencing off the electronic scoring system, so you're not always sure you get hit, you have to be honest about it and have to agree whose attack it was. He really doesn't like losing either, which also added to the entertainment factor (for me) when he was flinging himself at me repeatedly but I was parry-riposting him to take points and took him to 14-14. I'm pretty sure I won match point too but he made such a song and dance about it, we fought it again and he then 'won'.
The cherry on the cake was that our coach then insisted on drilling him at foil for half an hour because he really shouldn't have just kept doing the same thing over and over when it clearly wasn't working.
Anyway, a couple more weeks of practice and then I'm away - I get one week after I come back from Finland and then no practice between then and the epee competition, where I hope to acquit myself better than last time around. I also need to get back into the gym when I'm back from my holidays, as I've been very lazy the past few weeks.
As you can imagine, I was asked to relate my competition experience at practice last week and my coach did say that he'd seen me do a nice parry-riposte in one of the poule fights, so that was something. We've got a couple of epee competitions coming up in September and we're also trying to organise a tournament with other area clubs so I'm afraid there'll be more posts about fencing as those roll around...
Anyway, last week at practice one of the teenage regulars decided to ask me to fight foil with him. This is a lad who usually fights epee and who I think has me pegged as 'will give me a bit of a work-out but I can still beat her easily', which is pretty accurate. I think I took him to 15-11 on a really good day but the gap is more usually about 6-7 hits. We were fencing off the electronic scoring system, so you're not always sure you get hit, you have to be honest about it and have to agree whose attack it was. He really doesn't like losing either, which also added to the entertainment factor (for me) when he was flinging himself at me repeatedly but I was parry-riposting him to take points and took him to 14-14. I'm pretty sure I won match point too but he made such a song and dance about it, we fought it again and he then 'won'.
The cherry on the cake was that our coach then insisted on drilling him at foil for half an hour because he really shouldn't have just kept doing the same thing over and over when it clearly wasn't working.
Anyway, a couple more weeks of practice and then I'm away - I get one week after I come back from Finland and then no practice between then and the epee competition, where I hope to acquit myself better than last time around. I also need to get back into the gym when I'm back from my holidays, as I've been very lazy the past few weeks.
