I had a very fun practice the other day. We did some high energy warmups, the glove game, which was very good for situational awareness, hand speed, and foot movement. Then we did a bearpit to let the new fighters see how we fight in tournament. To give them all Read more…
Had a great time at practice. We did some running and high energy exercises. There were a number of new fighters there. I got to do some slow work with Giuame, and that was very good for helping me settle some actions, like fighting close. Then I got to work Read more…
Had a great tourney on Saturday. I drove down with my Lady and Theign Oak. We got through the border without issues and made it to the event just a bit before court, with enough time to get parked and set up and all. We came forward to kneel and say that we would fulfill the duties of a champion if we succeeded. After that we had the rest of the morning off, as the tourney was scheduled for one in the afternoon.
The event was outdoors with a few things in small halls. And it was freezing. Very freezing. It tried to snow once. So we spent most of the morning inside halls either watching the A&S or the Bardic competition and trying to stay warm. Around noon Oak and I began practicing a little, and trying out the baton and cloak, as both were likely to come up in the competition, and Oak didn’t have much practice with either.
After lunch we armoured up and began practicing. We got some fights in with some of the local dons and they gave us some good pointers, then we got ready for the procession. We had the procession and setup for the tourney. There were six entrants.
I’m off to Aquaterra’s All Champions event this weekend. It looks like an interesting event. You had to apply to compete, and you must have heraldry present with you. It’s a challenge tourney. Odd format though. One person challenges another to a number of fights. The challenged party chooses the Read more…
I got to fight in my first investiture tourney this week. It was my second tourney since I’ve been back.
I fought well, and placed better than I expected, defeating three people. One of whom went on to win.
On the Sunday I fought in the Cadet Tourney, sponsored by Oberst Luther Magnus. I did much better than I expected in this tourney, with 14 victories, which is almost 50/50. Luther gave me some tips which helped a lot, bringing my dagger lower, and pulling my sword closer to me.
With the dagger lower, it needs to move a bit more to protect my head, but it needs to move less to protect the rest of me, which I found was useful in my parries, and kept me alive much better.
Note to self, taking three weeks off is a little too long. I had a rather punishing practice on the 14th. I did my 50 lunges, and then worked on my dagger parries, we were practicing moving sword and dagger as one. Then I started practicing with Don Godfrey. It Read more…
Back to fencing tonight after the winter break. I’ve got two tournaments coming up, so I’m trying to get back on the horse in time. First up is going to be Winter’s Tourney on the 23rd, which should be a lot of fun. It will be my first full tournament Read more…
Fencing last night was great. I had the opportunity to fight vs longsword. Very interesting. I had a speed advantage, but that was balanced by his strength. When I was using dagger we were very much equals, but when I was fighting open hand I was definatly strugling. My guard Read more…