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
Monday, October 22, 2012
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
Friday, April 20, 2012
Exhaustion
Usually I am pretty stubborn when it comes to resting at practice. Don't want to show weakness or some such crap.
Last night while fighting I noted that leg shots I had no problem landing at the start had become more difficult to get acknowledged.
I could still get them in hard enough, but when I did, it required extra concious effort to do so.
As I got tired my body attempted to conserve energy by cheating the shot.
I am not at practice to prove anything, I am there to learn and get better. I can do that more effectively if I manage my exhaustion by take breaks when I need to.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
March 29. Pre practice.
At winter war HE Vik one shotted me, with a simple leg to head fake. I was so ready for an awesome fight I reacted very strongly to the fake and could not recover.
In truth I am not a minimal movement shield guy, a weakness of mine.
I am going to work on using the heater with minimal moves to block heads and legs. Also work on adding in crouches and rotational moves instead of just moving the shield.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
February 2nd, 2012
Back to practice tonight!
Almost need a new sword. Made the last one at the end of November. Got a solid 2 months out of it, but it is starting to fray pretty badly now.
Took me a little while to get around to decompressing last practice. Had pretty good success with a 2 shot combo: Head, leg. Never been my strongest shot, but probably cause I don't throw it very much. I will continue to work it into my routine. I watched some of our very high echelon fighters throw it with fire. The other aspect from last practice was to throw a shot into my opponents sword while closing to throw a deep wrap.
Yes staying at range and defensive, and timing shots is certainly my strong suit, I should still be able to jump in and unload a salvo and jump out with a fair degree of certainty that I won't die.
Almost need a new sword. Made the last one at the end of November. Got a solid 2 months out of it, but it is starting to fray pretty badly now.
Took me a little while to get around to decompressing last practice. Had pretty good success with a 2 shot combo: Head, leg. Never been my strongest shot, but probably cause I don't throw it very much. I will continue to work it into my routine. I watched some of our very high echelon fighters throw it with fire. The other aspect from last practice was to throw a shot into my opponents sword while closing to throw a deep wrap.
Yes staying at range and defensive, and timing shots is certainly my strong suit, I should still be able to jump in and unload a salvo and jump out with a fair degree of certainty that I won't die.
Had an excellent degree of success against a left hander by faking up to their top shield side and then throwing a leg blow against their sword side.
Tonight working on more of the same thing.
- Patience: Range/timing
- Holding defense while attacking (Especially on wraps)
- Head to leg, same side throw.
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