Friday, October 3, 2008:
These long weeks found me at last with sword in hand, preparing for my first bout with a veteran fencer. Everything blurred in my mind as I advanced. A parry happened without my realizing it, and I stood dumbfounded for a moment before riposting. What number parry was that again? No time [...]
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Fencer’s Log of the Previous Week*
New Parries, and Much News
Today, you get abbreviated recounts of practice on Tuesday, September 30, which consist of four new parries, and news!
Fencers learned/relearned Parries 1, 2, 7, and 8; flanconade.
The club’s first Movie Night is this Friday at 7:45 PM, where we will have our annual showing of The Princess Bride! There will be much recitation of movie [...]
Parried again?
On Friday, September 26, 2008, the Mary Washington fencers did in fact continue work on their parries, this time using each other for both point control and practice with ripostes.
Today, your humble scrivener arrived late to practice, and also remembers little from Friday’s practice, due to a nine hour Referee Clinic held at the Prince [...]
More Parries
After a review of Parry 4, fencers learned and refined Parry 6. Amidst much confused sword waving, elbow bending, wrist turning, and point fixing, the general consensus was that the techno music during warm ups and footwork drills is a definite improvement. Also, all fencers are quite exhausted from the start of midterm assignments and [...]
Parry Four
The evening of Sunday, September 21, 2008, new Mary Washington Fencers learned their first parry. Of course, this only followed the mass confusion that is learning the ways of mask sizes, jacket sizes, and locating that second breast protector for the ladies in the club. Those who knew how to weave chain mail wondered if [...]
Point Control
The practices of Tuesday, September 16 and Friday, September 19 both consisted of refining all of our fencers’ point control. From basic point rushing prevention to relaxing one’s arms and shoulders to hit an opponent’s fingertip in epee, all began by aiming for a suspended tennis ball or golf ball. Our epeeists also practiced on [...]
Footwork Fridays
Drop all you have and prepare yourselves for Footwork Fridays! Anyways, that’s probably what the fencers felt like at practice today. After an extra long and hard session of opening footwork, there were more footwork drills including the advance-lunge game with gloves, and an introduction to timing one’s arm extension with stepping forward to prevent [...]
