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Fencing through the masses

Written by Jean-Loup Rebours-Smith, on 30-06-2008 22:29

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Heya people,

First of all, just like the couple of post previous to this one, I apologise to the lack of daily picture. Like everything else, this kind of went down the pits of foresakeness (is that a word?). I'm still overdue and will get round to post the handful of photos I meant to post, ermm, 2 months ago.

Meanwhile, things have been trodding along and I haven't quite properly blogged for a while.

Life has generally been fairly quiet in the last 2 months or so. This has had some generally quite good effects on my life, especially with a rather nice couple of months we've had. It gave me a lot of time for reflection and re-centering and I found some, not quite so much new, but better defined directions where I want to take my life. Of course part of it is to not be evangelical about it, so that's pretty much all I'm going to say. It does help though and I find myself much better at coping with certain situations than I used to...

I was going to write something about what I'm up to in terms of fencing practice but I'm not sure my trail of though is well wired enough to put down all the things I've done in the last year or so.

In short, lots of Rapier, getting my head around Thibault, wanting to explore more destreza after discussing it with Maestro Alberto Bomprezzi, wishing there were more renaissance fencers around and moving to the next phase of advanced study of Capo Ferro. Will that ever make me a good "Giacatore"? I'm not too sure but I do want to aim at being competent enough to enjoy a challenge with a variety of styles. Having tried to use the rapier against a backsword this past weekend was rather interesting, especially when it comes to the relationship between the length of the blade and the tempo of a cut. Hopefully we can pull off this trip to Spain in October so I can attend a historical fencing event in Madrid and learn even more.

Last update : 30-06-2008 22:59