On Thursday I fought only a few sets because the rattan was SO worn out. It wouldn't flow. Maybe I was a little off, but the rattan was not helping.
Monday rolled around again as it always does. I largely squandered my weekend and avoided making a new sword. For some reason I alway see this as an onerous task, I would apparently rather fight with a broom, making it nearly impossible to land a good blow.
Yet, here we were again. Monday after work. Old worn out rattan. If I went to practice with it I wasn't going to fight. So I grabbed new rattan and craved up a sword.
For the past 5 or 6 iterations I have been carving my handle a certain way. It is a sort of modified saber grip, fatter at the top than at the bottom. Over trial and error I have determined I like it a little on the larger side over the smaller side.
I do not plane my swords, I don't really believe it helps make it look more like a sword or function more like a sword. It's a stick.
When I was fnished and I had it all taped up I noted despite the length being identical to my previous sword, this one was significantly heavier. Rattan must be denser. I have 2 more blanks from this piece of rattan.
Although Monday practice was small it was a joy to fight with a new stick. Absolute joy. I always think this when I have a new sword. ALWAYS.
Practice was a light sparring session with 2 other fighters. It was good to put the armor on and swing some stick around. Often with only three of us on the Monday we do not.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
October closeout. November start.
Final day of October.
Goals were as follows:
Goal updateNutrition: 19
Pell & slow work: 8
Practice: 6
Blog: 4
Nutrition:
Out of 21 days, I have eaten well for 17 of them. I am aiming for around 1900 calories a day. Some days I have come in pretty low, but haven't suffered for it. I have felt fine, not hungry.
I am a few days from my goal however. I was aiming for 90% compliance and ended up more like 81% compliance. I had a few days of emotional eating, but over all I did farily well. 17 day of eating well is a far cry from where I was, which was pretty much 0 days of eating well.
November starts a new month and it will be time to set some new goals.
Pell & Slow work:
As usual I did pretty much zero pell and/or slow work away from practice.
Practice:
I made it to six practices over the last half of the moth, but we only fought four of them due to low numbers.
Blog:
Have managed to keep up with the blogging, and have easily posted 4 times since the middle of October.
November goals
I will keep up my momentum. I will be looking to increase my dietary compliance, see if I can bring it up to 85%. That is 25 days in November where I am eating at my designated caloric limit. Coronet is also in Novemeber so it will affect the number of practices I make it to. Still I should be able to make 7 next month. I will continue to work at putting slow work into my training schedule. Be looking at once a week for now, so if I can get it in four times next month that would be awesome.
For new goals I am going to add resistance training to the goals in this blog as well as using my training journal. Using the training journal will constitute writing in it after practice and then reviewing it before next practice. Identifying areas I believe I am having trouble with and coming up with ways to fix them.
I have no real plan for resistance training. It will most likely take place at home. I have items in the garage I can use to make a fine workable gym. If I can get in there and lift something a couple times a week it will be a vast improvement over where I was.
GOALS:
Nutrition: 25
Practies: 7
Training Journal: 8
Slow work: 4
Resistance: 8
Goals were as follows:
Goal updateNutrition: 19
Pell & slow work: 8
Practice: 6
Blog: 4
Nutrition:
Out of 21 days, I have eaten well for 17 of them. I am aiming for around 1900 calories a day. Some days I have come in pretty low, but haven't suffered for it. I have felt fine, not hungry.
I am a few days from my goal however. I was aiming for 90% compliance and ended up more like 81% compliance. I had a few days of emotional eating, but over all I did farily well. 17 day of eating well is a far cry from where I was, which was pretty much 0 days of eating well.
November starts a new month and it will be time to set some new goals.
Pell & Slow work:
As usual I did pretty much zero pell and/or slow work away from practice.
Practice:
I made it to six practices over the last half of the moth, but we only fought four of them due to low numbers.
Blog:
Have managed to keep up with the blogging, and have easily posted 4 times since the middle of October.
November goals
I will keep up my momentum. I will be looking to increase my dietary compliance, see if I can bring it up to 85%. That is 25 days in November where I am eating at my designated caloric limit. Coronet is also in Novemeber so it will affect the number of practices I make it to. Still I should be able to make 7 next month. I will continue to work at putting slow work into my training schedule. Be looking at once a week for now, so if I can get it in four times next month that would be awesome.
For new goals I am going to add resistance training to the goals in this blog as well as using my training journal. Using the training journal will constitute writing in it after practice and then reviewing it before next practice. Identifying areas I believe I am having trouble with and coming up with ways to fix them.
I have no real plan for resistance training. It will most likely take place at home. I have items in the garage I can use to make a fine workable gym. If I can get in there and lift something a couple times a week it will be a vast improvement over where I was.
GOALS:
Nutrition: 25
Practies: 7
Training Journal: 8
Slow work: 4
Resistance: 8
Monday, October 22, 2012
Goals & Thursday
Went to practice in a foul foul foul mood. Strangely hitting people with sticks made things all better. Thankfully there was a couple or three guys I could fight hard and had good fights.
Had some good thinking fights at the end. Fights I could explain what I was doing and why it was successful. Usually the fight is governed by the animal mind and I have a hard time articulating things.
I skipped my drills this week. Bad mood, and only one new guy had showed up. I will do them this thursday, and select a second set for more exprienced guys a well.
Big demo this weekend. Will need to spend some time working on my equipment and such so I look half decent for the fighting portion of this.
Goal update
Nutrition: 10/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8 <-- BAD at this.
Practice: 3/6
Blog: 4/4
Had some good thinking fights at the end. Fights I could explain what I was doing and why it was successful. Usually the fight is governed by the animal mind and I have a hard time articulating things.
I skipped my drills this week. Bad mood, and only one new guy had showed up. I will do them this thursday, and select a second set for more exprienced guys a well.
Big demo this weekend. Will need to spend some time working on my equipment and such so I look half decent for the fighting portion of this.
Goal update
Nutrition: 10/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8 <-- BAD at this.
Practice: 3/6
Blog: 4/4
Thursday, October 18, 2012
October Drills & Goals update
Made it to practice on Monday. It was pretty lack luster. 4 of us total. 2 knights and 2 regular fighters.
Camera work sucked. All the heads are cut off. Need to find a decent place for the camera.
Still haven't done any real slow work since I started this. I have a real problem doing it.
My night to do drills at practice tonight.
Fair number of new guys right now, so I will do the following:
Goal update
Nutrition: 6/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8
Practice: 2/6
Blog: 3/4
Camera work sucked. All the heads are cut off. Need to find a decent place for the camera.
Still haven't done any real slow work since I started this. I have a real problem doing it.
My night to do drills at practice tonight.
Fair number of new guys right now, so I will do the following:
- Compass foot work
- Walking snap and return
- Maybe a line drill of some kind to simulate pressure.
- Pig sets up in the middle
- Fighters press Pig. Close strongly and apply pressure, no shots.
- Pig disengages in a defensive manner, perhaps with a shot
Goal update
Nutrition: 6/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8
Practice: 2/6
Blog: 3/4
Monday, October 15, 2012
October Goals
Practice on Thursday was largely drills. We ran two first blood line drills. One to work on knee fighting and one to work on single are left handed fighting.
Practice was in general good, but I found myself not caring about fighting certain people. And by this I mean I didn't care if they hit me or not. There was zero negative reinforcement. I was willing to just not care about my defense and work completely on my offense. Not a great habit to get into.
I took a fair bit of footage, but most of it was no good cause of people in the way. Will try a new spot for the camera tonight.
A couple of our newer fighters seemed to have issues with overly aggressive advances. If I came in fast left handed with my sword cocked hard to the right to throw and then stopped in that positiong WELL within range, they would simply freeze up. It is my week for drills, so I will probably try and work something in to try and address this.
GOALS
October is half gone, but I thought I would post some goals for the month.
Nutrition: 4/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8
Practice: 1/6
Blog: 2/4
Practice was in general good, but I found myself not caring about fighting certain people. And by this I mean I didn't care if they hit me or not. There was zero negative reinforcement. I was willing to just not care about my defense and work completely on my offense. Not a great habit to get into.
I took a fair bit of footage, but most of it was no good cause of people in the way. Will try a new spot for the camera tonight.
A couple of our newer fighters seemed to have issues with overly aggressive advances. If I came in fast left handed with my sword cocked hard to the right to throw and then stopped in that positiong WELL within range, they would simply freeze up. It is my week for drills, so I will probably try and work something in to try and address this.
GOALS
October is half gone, but I thought I would post some goals for the month.
- Nutrition: approx 1900 calorie/day during week. 21 days left aim for 90% compliance (19 days)
- Blog once per week. 4 times between now and the end of the month
- Pell/slow work 8 times between now and the end of the month
- Aim to hit 6 practices this month
Nutrition: 4/19
Pell & slow work: 0/8
Practice: 1/6
Blog: 2/4
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Posting & October goals
POSTING
I had hoped to post more on this blog, but I find the time I am most able to write is during the day, and I was unable to access the page from work.
I have been upgraded and that has apparently changed.
Summer practices were pretty good. It was nice to be outside. We conistently held to practices a week with great numbers at most of them.
We started at 7 and ended at 9 usually, and with the fading light we opted to drop drills so we could get as much time in to fight as possible.
We have started back inside and with it we can fight for a solid 2 hours without concern for light. With this we have also started drills again. Sadly work has been insane the last couple of weeks and I have not been in attendance. This week I will be back and ready to fight.
Looking forward to getting back into training instead of just sparring. Must remeber the video camera tonight.
GOALS
October is half gone, but I thought I would post some goals for the month.
Pell slow work: 0/8
Practice: 0/6
Blog: 1/4
I had hoped to post more on this blog, but I find the time I am most able to write is during the day, and I was unable to access the page from work.
I have been upgraded and that has apparently changed.
Summer practices were pretty good. It was nice to be outside. We conistently held to practices a week with great numbers at most of them.
We started at 7 and ended at 9 usually, and with the fading light we opted to drop drills so we could get as much time in to fight as possible.
We have started back inside and with it we can fight for a solid 2 hours without concern for light. With this we have also started drills again. Sadly work has been insane the last couple of weeks and I have not been in attendance. This week I will be back and ready to fight.
Looking forward to getting back into training instead of just sparring. Must remeber the video camera tonight.
GOALS
October is half gone, but I thought I would post some goals for the month.
- Nutrition: approx 2000 calorie/day during week. 21 days left aim for 90% compliance (19 days)
- Blog once per week. 4 times between now and the end of the month
- Pell/slow work 8 times between now and the end of the month
- Aim to hit 6 practices this month
Pell slow work: 0/8
Practice: 0/6
Blog: 1/4
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