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!
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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