Another milestone milestoned
Mar. 12th, 2018 12:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusBrief fencing-related update - at last week's practice I achieved yet another of my ongoing set of goals, this one around beating one of my regular teenage opponents.
There are 4 lads I've fenced fairly regularly for the past year or so and every week they beat me, the next week I come back and fence whichever of them are around, they beat me again, rinse and repeat. We usually fight up to 15, which is standard for competition fights, and on a good day I get into double figures. They're good to practice with because they all have very different styles, though I could do with a left-hander as well (though we're possibly getting one back in the summer, a woman who was with us because of an internship and is probably coming back because of a job in the same place when she finishes her post-grad course).
Last week, I beat one of them for the first time. This was the lad I'd almost beaten before Christmas and I just managed to scrape the victory 15-14. Needless to say, he was not pleased. ;)
There are 4 lads I've fenced fairly regularly for the past year or so and every week they beat me, the next week I come back and fence whichever of them are around, they beat me again, rinse and repeat. We usually fight up to 15, which is standard for competition fights, and on a good day I get into double figures. They're good to practice with because they all have very different styles, though I could do with a left-hander as well (though we're possibly getting one back in the summer, a woman who was with us because of an internship and is probably coming back because of a job in the same place when she finishes her post-grad course).
Last week, I beat one of them for the first time. This was the lad I'd almost beaten before Christmas and I just managed to scrape the victory 15-14. Needless to say, he was not pleased. ;)
