A great birthday and amazing fighter practice. For the first time since it's been warm enough to be outside it was dry, so we were outside running melees all day.
I started off slow, and on two-stick. I've decided to stop waffling and just take two-stick as a primary weapons form. I definitely feel like it works better for me. However, if I'm going to keep with it, I definitely need a skirt- hockey pants slow me down and make my knees slip, but by the end of the night I was limping from all the shots to my left lower hip/butt cheek area.
Melees were good- I got told to cause "hate and discontent" and fought side by side with our local white belt Sir Ivan, who I hadn't ever spoken to before. I even lived to the end of one battle!
I need to get my confidence up- I would stand still too long trying to make sure that I had proper engagement and that I wasn't team killing- but that is something that comes with practice.
I also need to do more pell work and shorten my sword (as well as pick up a second sword).
My mom came to watch me fight, which was super-awesome. I love my parents, so having them understand what I do even a little bit better is nice. Mom now gets that it's more than just hitting people with sticks- and that's probably the best present of all.
I also got to play with cooking, and made a fruit and bacon platter for practice- it was all gone by the end of the day, and Big Marcus told me he'd teach me to make tomato rosettes- something I've wanted to learn for awhile.
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