I've been remiss in posting my practice reports. Mostly its because I have not been happy with my fencing and have been slacking for the early part of the year. I've also been travelling a bunch this year as well, so that has not helped a lot. When we were in Orlando, I had planned on hitting their local practice, but it is held outside and it was the only day/night of rain we had, so I kind of figured that no one would be there.
On February 23rd, practice was a lot of fun. I had a few single bouts where I was working with some of our newer fencers. After a bit, Orlando organized some melee. We had 7 on 8 to start with. Malcolm and I were in command. I had the numbers advantage for the first bout, which we won. Jonathan switched sides so we were outnumbered, which was OK. We still managed to win all but one of the scenarios, even after we had another person drop out. Rather than setting up as a line, I set us up as two rows, 3 in front and then a back line, which was able to react to what the opponents were doing. For the most part, we had our lesser experienced fencers on the back line with me. This worked out well for us. The opposition was never able to flank us (even in the small space of our site). I really enjoyed the small unit work, and it helped to reinvigorate me.
Yesterday, was mostly good. I had some good passes with Jonathan, Orlando, and Sir Jan. I did some teaching. Against Jan, well,we were both legged and we bounced our weapons off of each other and I took the edge right in the tip of my off-hand pinkie. Ouch. It still hurts today. But I did have fun. That's the thing that had been missing for a while.
Coming very soon is the EK Rapier Academy, something I've wanted to run for a long time. Its all coming together, and I can't wait for it to be here.
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