Fencing Club - Salle, After Classes Monday

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Again Edmund was in early and setting up for the club. He waited for everyone to arrive before addressing them. "Using a sword rarely comes naturally. You have to put effort into it, but you also have to work at your own pace to learn the fundamentals. If you want to practice the footwork drills from last week, please move over to my left and have at it. Experienced swordsmen...women...people," he fumbled, "who wish to use the time to spar head down the back. Everyone else will be practising a few defence exercises. We'll get to the attacking part next week."

Edmund demonstrated a few defence drills. "There you have it. If you need me to run through them with you, wave me over."

Comments

Arrive and Mingle

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Like mingling things that mingle.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Fiona showed up of course, and resolved herself to try and be social today.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Turtle was wondering if she was re-energized enough to take on some fencing, but she knew her own limits and decided she'd just take it easy today.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[icecoldfrost]

Emma was there, and ready to get a work-out today. Hopefully someone would be willing to spar.

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[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

Azula crossed her arms and she studied the other people in the club before she turned her attention to Edmund and listened.

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[lordofthecats.livejournal.com]

Lion-o was in a pretty good mood and looking forward to doing some more drills.

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[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was ready for another spar this afternoon, bouncing on her toes, and looking around.

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[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Ellie was there and ready to try some more drills. She knew she was not quite ready to try sparring, yet.

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[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Rose was coming directly from her afternoon training session again so she arrived a little late. But that did not deter her from being there. And mingling.

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[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne arrived and was once again way too happy to get to use his modified practice sword. He was a massive geek.

Re: Arrive and Mingle

[pyroliz.livejournal.com]

Liz was there and mingling.

Defence Drills

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund was happy to demonstrate them (http://www.fencing.net/drills/drills2.php) again for anyone who needed another go. Well, as happy as Edmund ever seemed to be anyway.

Re: Defence Drills

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

These were more for defence than she was really used to, which made them interesting. Fiona did the drills with gusto and a small smile.

Re: Defence Drills

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Defense was....defense was good. Turtle focused on the drills and trying to get them right, not only paying attention to Edmund's demonstrations but also keeping an eye on everyone else to see how they were doing them, too.

Re: Defence Drills

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Ellie paid close attention to the demonstration before attempting to try them herself.

Re: Defence Drills

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

There was grace to the drills but Azula noted that the popular sword work of the West did not include the whole body during a fight. There were no kicking nor punching just reliance on the blade.

It was not a philosophy Azula was used to.

Re: Defence Drills

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Mmm, drills. Rose worked through them intently, the formality so very different from what she'd worked with before.

Re: Defence Drills

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

Zayne was slightly shaky on the drills, but defense was something he was pretty good at. Zayne had a natural survival instinct. So even when he didn't look so hot, he at least didn't look lost.

Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

For those wanting to do their own thing.

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah was there practicing her footwork, step-step-lunge, and ready to stop and spar if anyone was up for it.

Talk to Edmund and Algren

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund was moving around the Salle, but please wait for Algren to ping in.

Re: Talk to Edmund and Algren

[shiroi_tiger]

Algren was there, keeping an eye on those who decided that they might like to spar, today. He trusted Edmund to keep the beginners from impaling themselves on training swords, but where there was sparring, there was almost always ego, and a dangerous amount of that had no place happening on his watch.

Re: Talk to Edmund and Algren

[azuldragon.livejournal.com]

"Prince Edmund," Azula walked up to him, practice sword in hand.

OOC

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

I got through Winter without a really bad cold. The heat wave hits and voila! Instant cold complete with 100% natural hacking cough! Cough syrup is the reason I hate the flavour of cherries.

Re: OOC

[guardianborn.livejournal.com]

Cough syrup is not the flavor of cherries. Cough syrup is the fake taste of disgusting.