So onto the fencing, as that is what I'm blogging about. I had some trouble establishing my distance with the new blade. 5" doesn't really sound that much in the grand scheme of life. It is a little more than half the length of my foot. But finding my distance was what I was working on last night and will need to continue to work on. I felt like I was setting up way too close in most of my bouts. I fought Malcolm and was unable to keep him from closing the distance in the later fights, which resulted in fun but ugly kills both ways. Against Orlando, I felt better, but still coming up shorter than I wanted to and setting up too close. I need to take half a step back and relearn how to close the distance. Antonio had me me wishing for the 43" blade just to keep him at bay a little longer. I was in that space where no one wants to be, where he could reach me and I could not reach him. I tried to work the cross parry with the dagger against him to keep my blade free. Eventually he wound up hitting me with an un-tippedl blade in the left arm, as his tip had gotten caught in the guard of my rapier. OUCH...
With that I called it a night. I iced the arm, and this morning, thankfully there is only a small bruise.
Monday evening a few of us are getting together to work on core strength, balance, stretching, and stamina. Anyone have suggestions for exercises?
" I was in that space where no one wants to be, where he could reach me and I could not reach him." Sounds like how most of bouts typically are with me being short and using a 36ish" blade. Keeps life interesting that way. :-)
ReplyDeleteAs for exercises, oh man... so many ideas. Depending on how crazy you guys want to get with it. I train at a boxing gym and those guys are nuts when it comes to workouts. Here's what comes to mind. Stuff to get your mind churning anyways.
Core:
Planks
Side planks
Crunches
Six inches
V-roll ups
Strength: (kinda depends what you guys have for weights if any)
Incline and decline pushups
Clap pushups
Dips
Shoulder presses
Shoulder raises
One legged squats
Jump squats
Wall squats
Bent over rows
Pull ups
Stamina: Doing the above will help with that, especially if you don't give yourself much of a break between sets and exercises. Jumping jacks and jump rope is also good. Three rounds for three minutes with a minute break for jump rope. As may jumping jacks as you can for that. Hoping back and forth on one leg will help with balance, leg strength and some stamina.
Soooo yea... lots of things. :)
Thanks for the suggestions on exercises.
DeleteNo problem. Let me know if you run into any issues or have Qs with any of them.
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