Thanks to the efforts of Sir Rauokinn, Wednesday practice in Madrone was very well attended. It was great to be there, even though I was only doing some slow work and a little teaching.

Also it was a nice way to celebrate the anniversary of my knighting. Thirty years ago today.

I've got a new person to train. He's small, but has a strong grip.

Not much of a show for Sunday Practice this week. Were people to drained after Ursulmas? Were they watching the Super Bowl? For myself, I was excited to get to practice. After a tourney I am full of ideas and a desire to work on them at practice.
It was great having Sir Martin come over to the practice.

We had a wonderful time at Ursulmas this year. The autocrat team did a great job. And, there were tons of great fighters there, as usual. I went out both days fighting in the main tourney on Saturday and Gideon's over 40 tourney on Sunday.
All my squires did their bit to make me proud.

Nobody else showed for today's practice in Aquaterra. So I spent the time working on shield and footwork drills. The main focus is making sure the shield position is properly adjusted as one moves.

Had another good practice yesterday (last Sunday) in Aquaterra. I got Sir Luther to come out, which was a nice addition. He hopes to get out to the practice now and then ( Read more... )

Octomacades is visiting for a few days. Anyone interested in coming over to my place for a practice on Friday (tomorrow)?

Had another good practice at Emerson. Had four in armor and a brand new person doing slow work. I spent allot of the practice teaching others how to throw blows using their lower bodies for power and how to move with their center to maintain balance, speed and power.

I'm planning on attending fighting practice this Sunday in Aquaterra at Emerson School (the old practice site). Angharad convinced a few people to show up to the old site just to fight with me. Cool.

The King and Crown Prince were at the Kingdom Bardic fight practice. It was a great practice. Aquaterra doesn't usually get such a high quality practice. The turn out could have been better, but the quality was great. I finished putting together my new square strap on shield, so I played with that. It felt a bit different than the other one I was ( Read more... )