Fight Practice. February 19, 2015

Current goals

• Working on staying cognisant during the fight.
• Not a lot of metrics here.
• Not over fighting - practicing in a non-exhausted state.
• Get tired?  Stop.  It's practice. 

Fought off and on all night.  Took breaks for the most part when I was very tired and felt like I was slipping from my focus.  Breaks were short allowing a lot of fighting.

Worked mostly on keeping my shield in the right spot and staying cognisant of the fight.  There was a few fights that I was successful not doing that.  There was a few fights where my focus slipped from the overall fight to my offense and I paid for it instantly.

Worked on lowering my center of gravity to help guard my legs a little more near the end of the practice as well.

New goal

• Fighting from a slightly lower stance.
• Work on footwork from this position.
• work on the pell from this position.

Fight Practice. Thursday, Feb 12, 2015

I haven't fought for a little while.  At Christmas I either sprained or fractured my foot, so I was giving it some time to heal.

Over the past month I've slowly headed back into the gym and started lifting and doing stationary cycle work.  Today I got bored on the bike and put twenty minutes in on the treadmill. 

Today I started back to practice as well.  I also started back up a fighting log and I am planning on updating this blog a lot more.

Goals last night were to work on defense, it was the paramount think I wanted to work on.  Secondary was to fight from a lower center of gravity.

In general I did well and kept the shield between me and the opponent.  I kept my attention on their weapon.  I had a few laspses when I was pressing hard, and typically payed the price.

One of the other things I worked on last night was not over working.  When I got tired I took a break.  It yields less fighting.  But it yields more fun and better fighting, and hopefully more productive fighitng.