Uncategorized 7:22 pm
More thing to write about in further detail when I get a chance:
The relationship between distance to make a prep for and length of the prep. (Close/long, Far/Long, Close/Short,Far/Short, ect…)
My lessons: React forward!!! Or at least stay in distance. Second disengage 45` only. Sixte slow, eight fast…
Uncategorized 5:33 am
Need to collect insight about my breathing:
Llastochka noticed that when I was warming up today on my off-arm side, I held my breath.
Also: Energy management during a bout, need to press and rest while applying psychological pressure, not always press like a horse. Pull distance every once in a while and rest in a tall on-guard.
Uncategorized 10:04 pm
More crap I need to write about:
Uncategorized 10:24 pm
Ha, the first step to anti-Polish fencing is to take lessons from a Polish coach. Second, if he does trigger my habitual four, then I need to follow with a circle four, not turn into the four-six windshield wiper…. That should inspire to fix the back leg too. Then, a very consistent, energetic half-step pressure. Legs low and loaded. Back leg ready to push or pull. I always see those ugly commited flesches that end up in a different line, but because my back leg is stuck, or I’m a little lazier than necessary, it’s too late to pull distance for a second parry or an attack into it.
Solutions:
Develop faith in a long attack into their prep: flesche or lunge with disengage. Basically what Sukhi and I are doing in lesson, but do it from a longer distance.
Change reaction to their prep from wanting to counter attack, make a direct coupe to the hand, or step/jump forward and take blade to one of the following:
Uncategorized 3:45 pm
Yesterday was my 5th lesson with Sukhi… We’re still in the establishing the comm link phase, but the following is clear: I’m sticking with him.
The good: I compensate and adjust very quickly, I can see how to use the actions we’re working on and take them further on with some of my own spice such as direct coupes and pressure to close distance. Back leg getting better, and it really helped to fence in ankle weights on Tuesday. Makes the foot slide on the ground more and I’m more conscious about reaching back with it on the retreats. Recovered my dis-engage on right handed high-low-high attack. Note: against a six-eight-six parry, the outside disengage on lefties is clockwise-counterclockwise, outside disengage on righties is counterclockwise-clockwise! I know this in theory but doing this for the first time in more than five years was a mess. Need to remember to make a half step with point to the leg on opponent’s step forward then finish with a disengage and full extension-lunge… I’m a little too indoctrinated into always feeding the blade to opponent…
The bad: Recover with my feet together too much. This is OK at long distance when playing, but in engagement distance I need to be in a better, lower step with back leg bent. The control counterattack with angled four is always late for some reason too, need to pay attention more as to why. Flesche was hard, he wants me to push off the back leg first, this is totally new, but we’ll work and see what happens with this.
Now, the biggest gripe: his fencing language is either jstu bad or different from mine. We need to sit down and I must, somehow withough pissing him off, establish which “back leg” is what. My understandings are:
Halfstep lungeis when you make a half step, then finish the step by explosively bringing the back leg forward and immediately lunging. Two tempo action. 1: Half-step……. 2: Finish step-lunge. Slow-fast or half-note+2 quarter notes. Better yet, finish can be even faster, something like 2 eights…
Advance-lunge is just that, full step forward finished, lunge. Two tempos, fast-fast or both notes are the same.
Apel’-lunge is when you turn your halfstep into a lunge. Take halfstep, then from within the halfstep kick out front leg and push off explosively with the backleg. One tempo action: Slow-Fast.
On a separate note, Retaliator took her last lesson and so it goes….
I think I like good beer a little too much. I shall make white wine spitzers sometimes instead of the usual beer!
IVL taking a lesson 10:58 pm
My lesson:
Half-step+take four = six with back leg forward+extend at the same time. Then Lunge. Need to train this with a delayed lunge. Back leg, six and extend need to be all on one tempo. Train relaxed shoulder with high guard.
In general, back leg is getting better. need to keep working it during bouting, even if there is no reaction and the opponent is lazy. Too easy for me to coupe on the potatoes hand, I should instead work the half-step/back leg actions.
Also, interesting revelation was to fence on the Suchorski feint to the hand with the half step, and I got the feeling that I should do it at a higher pace from long distance but with very good fluidity and an elastic front leg. This way I can implement my close distance control from further away. Can also evolve the straight feint into a small over the top coupe or a circle six coupe.
NutTree: fixed the take in four, revelation was to tell him: “Choose a space that you take the opponets blade to and stick with that decision.” At first he was weaker on the take, but then adjusted correctly.
Fencing lesson and IVL taking a lesson and epee and technique 3:37 am
Not bad at all, surprised by calm humility and relaxed thinking approach. Issues to address:
Recovery from lunge into a step. Roberto calls this short recovery, what he means is that I’m to push up with my front leg back towards on-guard then immediately and simultaneously reach back with the back leg and step back with the front. I got it in footwork, gotta keep in my minds eye the method. It is good and should work well in correlation with a full recovery, then a long+short retreat. Why did we do this? To give yourself room for the control counterattack at his distance.
I should never take what he says as dogma, but incorporate his methods into what I already do. For example: I could use the half step + feint with a full extension = finish with a double disengage, using my high coupe to the hand with a held tip after the coupe. Thus the feint will not be as fake, and I need to compensate for the closer.Very important to make the first disengage (into low line) with the finish of half step. Then lunge deep with final disengage.
However, I shall also fence at least three bouts per lesson, employing his methods, even the feints that I hate so much.
Very good action was half-step coupe to the hand–> retreat, circle-six riposte. Remember to retreat after coupe and parry-riposte after the retreat.
Fatigue was not so good, last action was forced. Need to breathe better and get a little angrier within the reset between actions when I feel like I’m slipping. Simple counter-attacks to the hand need a higher guard. Should practice on the dummy to get comfortable.
Given lessons:
All was not so bad, remember to incorporate the forward/lateral press on the blade with half-step and correct reaction with multiple phrases. Both started too close, need to re-iterate distance has to be outside of engagement. Long damned distance, heh…
CrabCake had problems with the forward part of the forward/lateral circle six. Solution was to slowdown and start 15-20% further away.
Very good anti-fleche parry was manifested after half-step+press = retreat with disengage and only then parry-riposte. Good good good.
Fencing lesson and technique 1:52 pm
Cherry Blossom: last bout with ArmyBoy, circle six, long distance prep and awareness…
Direction of lessons with my kids:
develop a strip run of counter attack+distance break with long-short double retreat.
Adjust 8 on CrabCake and Retaliator. Give high circle 6 to NutTree
My own fencing: implement palestra and palestra+half step. Not fluid enough now and not enough bladework in concert with the footwork. Coordinate correctly.
adjustment and technique 1:31 pm
When far for a half step, make sharp jump+halfstep! Thusly the prep action is more likely to be in distance. The jump can alo be a palestra, which is probably better for this purpose as its easier to steal time with it.
All dynamic developments apply: sharp jump = ready then as well, half step forward can be cut and turn into retreat, and fleche.
Uncategorized 9:03 pm
Nut Tree, Monday 04/09:
I have to keep reminding myself to have a simple beginning to the lesson, after the basic technique stuff. Nut Tree took upon himself the worst part of the lesson, where I was trying to figure out the best way to have him engage the blade with a bind and finish with a bind, though possibly into a different line.
Mistake I made was to immediately give him a choiced action without having worked much, barely at all on a simple, lateral and continuous bind in the four major lines. (6, 4, 8, 7…) Once he got comfortable controlling the blade with a continuous bind, then the finish became much easier. Finish this time was a lunge to the body if 6 or 4, and to the leg if 8.
Next lesson: to give multiple half step engagements with a bind and then choose where to counter-attack or fleche with a disengage if opponent wrestles the line. Also possibly with a beat-touch to hand if opponent withdraws and/or nothing but a short step forward to take the strip if opponent completely runs.
CrabCake, Monday 04/09:
I fixed my mistakes from NutTree’s lesson and the instruction went much smoother, but he has other issues of course, like the constant tension. That’s the usual grind though.
Next lesson same a NutTree, engage with bind, the either release-beat-touch to the hand, counterattack or fleche. I also think these binding actions might help cure the “Ninja-Crab 4″ disease of his… Need to keep providing alternatives to it.
I really should work on these binds more, hell, I should do them myself more… The repertoire we’re building needs them at least as a method to feed the opponent false information.
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