First practice of the year
Last night for dinner I made my fried chicken, rice and teriyaki things. I make a lot, so still had plenty for lunch today.
Despite temperatures well below freezing all week, today was all of +3C.
The manual that has the sickle moves we do in our shows also has a scythe section:
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The historical group my wife is associated with translated this a decade or more ago and we’ve always wanted to do it, but thought it too dangerous.
Robin came up with a way that might be OK. But, the scythes we have are very old and rusty, so in addition to cleaning all our sword that have been in storage since November, we started working on cleaning these.
The others went through the bag of swords we don’t use any more and cleaned some and put some back.
A few people actually worked on sword fights while we were doing all this.
Ian has the idea of doing demos based on the masters mentioned in the sword fight on top of the Cliffs of Insanity in The Princes Bride.
Several of us explained we had done that before and it doesn’t work well as those masters are fairly boring masters. They give good fight advice. But, unless you want a show consisting of stabbing people in the hearts or face, it’s not good performance material.
I do have 2 out of the 4 masters mentioned (Agrippa and Capo Ferro) and loaned him those books. There is no Bonetti book. (That’s been found.) I used to have some Thibault around, but I don’t know where it went.
There is a difference between books that are good at showing you how to kill people and what makes a good show. We’ve been down that path before. If Ian wants to try, he can, but I don’t think it will work out.
We finished fairly early and headed home before the moon was too high in the sky.
