Fighter Practice 11-7

Cold night. Drills with Cillian, Sirona, Tom, William, Catalin, and Rowena, Then fighting with Tom and Cillian. The drills were good. We've all been getting sloppy. With Castle Wars coming up, we want to make a good showing for the last tournaments of the season. And I am seiously eyeing that practical basket hilt cut&thrust sword.

Tuesday Night Practice Oct 30

I have been neglecting my blogging duties and have missed recording at least 2 practices I can no longer fully recall. Last night I sparred with Charles, Cillian, Sirona, and Tom. A good hard intense session that ended by 9. Went through all my styles. Had some ood moves, a lot of bad moves. Mostly just had fun playing with the swords. Cillian showed the new toys. Hanwei practical cut and thrust cruciform swords. Says there is a basket hilt style available. More sword envy. Dang but I want one.

Fencing at Pillage on the Plains

A Good weekend for fencing. Perfect weather, warm, but not hot, with steady breezes to cool things down a bit.

Randalin in Kyrra was fighting her prize for her Companionate in the Argent Rapier. She fought all comers single blade, sword and dagger, and sword and cloak. She defeated me sword and dagger, but I was successful with sword and cloak and single blade. We double killed on sword and cloak and I had o do push ups. Then we re fought the point.

In the Round Robin tournament, I lost to Cillian, Sirona, and Tom, but defeated Stefan de Gascon, Garrick, and Enrique. I fought all styles I'm authorized with.

I later fought pick up fights with Enrique, Stefan, and Randalin for a full afternoon of swordplay.

Practice Tuesday 10-2

Not a very intense session. Cillian and Sirona were there, but they were working on her prize fight and I never got to fight either of them. Charles and Tom and I bear-pitted for a while, and I fought Tom with case. Then Cillian had us both try capes. The style is very exhausting, and I have a tendency to foul my own blade with the damn thing.

Tuesday Night Practice.

Most everyone was still fragged from Red Tower. Tom and I were the only ones to suit up and play. I probably wouldn't have wanted to play much if Tom hadn't come dressed for it. I was still mentally tired from Red Tower, even if I didn't fight much. We fought sword and dagger, and case. Tom has surpassed me. Well, no surprise there. But I can still get some good moves on him when I can open him up with my off hand weapon.

Rapier at Red Tower

My fighting at Red Tower was somewhat limited. First, I spent the first part of the morning heralding the heavy tournament, and thus missed the Cut-and-thrust demo and class. Then, the day got very warm and very humid. I fought some in a pick up bout with Sigurd, before the actual tournament, and probably should have sought out some other opponents as well, but it was too darn hot. I didn't do all that well in the tournament, either, drawing Tom for an opponent. I would rather have had someone I don't fight every week, but them's the breaks. Tom and I are fairly evenly matched, but he has the edge in physical strength, and he got the win here.

The melee tourney did not go much better. Red Sword was hampered by William armoring down early due to the heat, and we did not have much coordination to our fight. I managed to take Thomas O'Toole's hand in our second bout, but did not otherwise distinguish myself. As a fencer, I remain a pretty good Bard.

Tuesday, Sptember 18

Great Fighting Tonight

Attending were Charles, Cillian, Sirona, William, Tom, and myself. I fought everyone at least once. Charles observed that I forget to move my dagger when fighting with it in my off hand. I need to work on that. I worked on my buckler technique a little. Sean and Oswin came over from the heavies and talked to us about melee tactics. The weather was pleasantly cool in the evening. Good fighting weather. Tom and I double killed twice and did the requisite pushups. All in all an excellent warm up before Red tower.