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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Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Well, I've been training since I was little, but I'm nowhere near where I should be considering that," Zayne said. "And I do trip over my own feet a lot, which doesn't help."

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah tilted her head. "Do you think it's that still-growing thing? Or not-quite-done? Or do you just get distracted?"

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Honestly?" Zayne said. "Some people might say it's more of a not-good-enough thing. But then I get into my I'm-just-going-to-try-harder thing, which, um, hasn't had the best success rate so far."

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

"Those people suck," Dinah said succinctly. "Nobody's born knowing this stuff. Well, unless they're a Skywalker, I guess." She shook her head, frowning. "And I don't know about success, but know from trying harder. Even if you're not improving as fast as you want, you gotta be getting better." IT just made sense!

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

"Those people are the people who have to judge whether or not I become a Jedi Knight after training my whole life," Zayne said without a hint of disappointment. He still had time to change their minds, of course. "And they don't suck. They're just... grading me. You're either strong in the Force and know how to use it, or you're not and you don't. I'm closer to the second one."

Re: Footwork Practice/General Sparring

[blondecanary.livejournal.com]

Dinah bit her lip, considering that, and realizing that yeah, if they valued the Force that much, and Zayne wasn't the strongest, then they might make a wrong call. "Well. I hope that things go better, either way. And you get to pass those tests."