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."

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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.

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[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.