When I left work yesterday I looked up and saw a beautiful day. A good day to hold practice outside, always a pleasure to fight in the grass instead of inside on floors.
Drills:
The drills largely comprised of staying engaged and using your shield to neautralize your opponents shield.
Offense:
In addition to that I was working on a two shot combo, onside head -> onside leg. I had a decent amount of luck with it. Needs lots of polish and some mechanical work, mainly re loading my hip between, which may help in recovery. Right now I am throwin the head and letting the sword teardrop 1/2 way and then firing the leg.
Defense:
I was also working at keeping my shield in front of me or at least in a defensive position, so often it floats out, gets pivoted out, gets forgot about.
Range:
It was mentioned that I was holding range better that I was holding a guy in a deadzone where I could strike and he could not. That is a good thing, but maybe a bit further out than I want. This positioning where I throw and get no response most certainly plays into my defensive issues. ie I am not threatened, my shield becomes a secondary consideration.
Journals:
For awhile my methodology, and will be again, was to write all this up in a journal. Make notes and comments, write ideas down I had at practice. I would then read this again right before practice. This was in an attempt to create continuity and an unbroken learning between practices.
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