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Jul. 15th, 2001 09:16 pmwhee. i was going to wake up at noon, but the bed was comfy and the dreams were interesting and i was still tired, so i went back to sleep for an hour. i was going to see if gstreet carried the frogs i needed before fencing, but i couldn't remember which shopping center it was in. belphoebe goes to gstreet all the time, though, so she said she'd look the next time she was there.
decided which buttons i wanted on my ghawazee coat (the bronzeish ones) so i have to go back and buy enough of them...
for sword maintenance, i need: rust eraser (buy at pennsic), a sandpapery rust remover (home depot), 3-in-1 oil. if i can get all the rust cleaned off soon, thomas lyon will blue my schlager for me, for the cost of the propane ($10).
fencing was good. i got there early and fought henri, who doesn't practice with us often and thus didn't realize that we usually start an hour after we say we're going to. he's very good... i have a feeling he's a free scholar, or is being considered for such. i did pretty well against him, except i let him sit too close to me, which meant that a lot of times who died depended on who was faster in a straight line attack. a lot of the time it was me, though. :) and after several hits he apologized for making too hard, he gave me my first injury of the day - a red mark right above the inside of my elbow. :P
i fought thomas lyon with schlager, which was fun, although i felt very awkward. my schlager isn't balanced all that well, i need to see if there's something i can do about that. it feels heavy, which throws my point control even more off, and means that near the end of the fight i was doing stupid things because i was tired. i'm even more defensive than with epee, because of my tendency to overcommit in an attack - do that with schlager, and i'm *really* screwed. and i have a lovely, large, blue and purple bruise on my bicep, and a red line from the inside of my elbow up my arm. all of my injuries are on my right arm, save one.
constanza showed up. i kicked her ass quite nicely. she begged off after a little while, saying that she was dizzy and short of breath. this always happens in the summer, she says. bah, i say. she was just getting upset cause she kept dying. she *really* wants to be a free scholar, she thinks she's good enough and does enough. and yet the main reason she wins fights is because she rhinohides, doesn't call blows. heh. she did that to me, but rather than snark at her about it, i just ignored two of her hits to my dagger hand. she didn't say anything.
we did melees at the end, and i did awful. the only time i hit anyone, i died. :P i need to work on melees badly. after all, i'm atlantian - we're supposed to be good at these things. i got my only non-arm injury from henri during the melees. he hit me in the boob and then fell... towards me. and didn't break his wrist or anything, so i got his entire body weight behind the blow. hurt like a bitch.
but yah, even though i got a large amount of bruises, i think i was still doing fairly well at this practice. i didn't feel off, except a little during the melees and when i was fighting schlager, but even then not that much.
need to finish my cotehardie tonight. take in the gussets and the wrists, and finish the cuffs. belphoebe gave me the linen for a new fencing shirt, so i need to work on that, and the yeleks. kate's working on the gypsy chemise, and i still need to get fabric for the middle eastern chemises. i need to check linenweb and let belphoebe know if i want any from there.
...and i think that's everything. the yeleks are going to take forever, though.
i had a brownie sundae for dinner, and scrounged other people's leftovers. thomas gave me shit for it, but the people i begged from were amused.
decided which buttons i wanted on my ghawazee coat (the bronzeish ones) so i have to go back and buy enough of them...
for sword maintenance, i need: rust eraser (buy at pennsic), a sandpapery rust remover (home depot), 3-in-1 oil. if i can get all the rust cleaned off soon, thomas lyon will blue my schlager for me, for the cost of the propane ($10).
fencing was good. i got there early and fought henri, who doesn't practice with us often and thus didn't realize that we usually start an hour after we say we're going to. he's very good... i have a feeling he's a free scholar, or is being considered for such. i did pretty well against him, except i let him sit too close to me, which meant that a lot of times who died depended on who was faster in a straight line attack. a lot of the time it was me, though. :) and after several hits he apologized for making too hard, he gave me my first injury of the day - a red mark right above the inside of my elbow. :P
i fought thomas lyon with schlager, which was fun, although i felt very awkward. my schlager isn't balanced all that well, i need to see if there's something i can do about that. it feels heavy, which throws my point control even more off, and means that near the end of the fight i was doing stupid things because i was tired. i'm even more defensive than with epee, because of my tendency to overcommit in an attack - do that with schlager, and i'm *really* screwed. and i have a lovely, large, blue and purple bruise on my bicep, and a red line from the inside of my elbow up my arm. all of my injuries are on my right arm, save one.
constanza showed up. i kicked her ass quite nicely. she begged off after a little while, saying that she was dizzy and short of breath. this always happens in the summer, she says. bah, i say. she was just getting upset cause she kept dying. she *really* wants to be a free scholar, she thinks she's good enough and does enough. and yet the main reason she wins fights is because she rhinohides, doesn't call blows. heh. she did that to me, but rather than snark at her about it, i just ignored two of her hits to my dagger hand. she didn't say anything.
we did melees at the end, and i did awful. the only time i hit anyone, i died. :P i need to work on melees badly. after all, i'm atlantian - we're supposed to be good at these things. i got my only non-arm injury from henri during the melees. he hit me in the boob and then fell... towards me. and didn't break his wrist or anything, so i got his entire body weight behind the blow. hurt like a bitch.
but yah, even though i got a large amount of bruises, i think i was still doing fairly well at this practice. i didn't feel off, except a little during the melees and when i was fighting schlager, but even then not that much.
need to finish my cotehardie tonight. take in the gussets and the wrists, and finish the cuffs. belphoebe gave me the linen for a new fencing shirt, so i need to work on that, and the yeleks. kate's working on the gypsy chemise, and i still need to get fabric for the middle eastern chemises. i need to check linenweb and let belphoebe know if i want any from there.
...and i think that's everything. the yeleks are going to take forever, though.
i had a brownie sundae for dinner, and scrounged other people's leftovers. thomas gave me shit for it, but the people i begged from were amused.