At least my brain seems to have recovered from this past weekend. Two solid days trying to cram an entire fighting system into my head left a serious concrete block in my head come Monday. Spanish rapier is fascinating, but it's so different from the other styles I know that having to block out old knowledge while taking in all the new drove me nuts. It didn't help that I walked in there all thinking it was no big deal, that I could handle it fine. Nor did it help that I had to miss the basic introductory material since they covered that Friday, when I couldn't be there. By Sunday evening I'm afraid I wasn't good for much, very frustrated as all the stuff I'd learned tried to come out at once and made it nearly impossible for me to fence with any skill at all. I like the style more than I thought, though, and I think it'll be worth pursuing just for fun. I still consider myself English as a swordsman, but the Spanish is different enough that it will be good to know, and stylistic enough to throw hissy fits into people who aren't used to facing it ;) BWAH HAH HAH HA HAAAAAA!!
At least my brain seems to have recovered from this past weekend. Two solid days trying to cram an entire fighting system into my head left a serious concrete block in my head come Monday. Spanish rapier is fascinating, but it's so different from the other styles I know that having to block out old knowledge while taking in all the new drove me nuts. It didn't help that I walked in there all thinking it was no big deal, that I could handle it fine. Nor did it help that I had to miss the basic introductory material since they covered that Friday, when I couldn't be there. By Sunday evening I'm afraid I wasn't good for much, very frustrated as all the stuff I'd learned tried to come out at once and made it nearly impossible for me to fence with any skill at all. I like the style more than I thought, though, and I think it'll be worth pursuing just for fun. I still consider myself English as a swordsman, but the Spanish is different enough that it will be good to know, and stylistic enough to throw hissy fits into people who aren't used to facing it ;) BWAH HAH HAH HA HAAAAAA!!
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