Informal Sunday Morning Practice
At Aleksii's birthday dinner, Jazod suggested an informal practice this morning to work single sword. It was me, Jazod, a_l_e_k_s_i_i & Hengis. It was a slow start for all of us, though a beautiful sunny morning. I had a hard time getting my head in the game: my armor felt heavy and my arms felt like lead. We fought a couple of rounds, but I couldn't get it together, so I said to Jazod, "Hit me in the head."
"What?" He said.
"Hit me in the head." He hit me, high on the helm and without much pop. I told him to do it again, and he did, this time a solid hit to the side of the head. The jolt shook me up a little and I fought a little better after that. I felt more present in the moment.
So we started sword and shield, and I got warmed up fighting Jazod and the Hengis. I sucked with Jazod. Better with Hengis, I was able to work on faking a bit. Here's something John Wulfstan gave me that I'm proud of getting the hang of: it's so simple but it's like, my first trick! I threw at Hoss's head, and he blocked it, and I was already spinning the sword in a tight circle to throw at the same spot just as he dropped his shield to see. Bam! Heheheheheh.
Single sword was tough but ok. I worked on being more aggressive, more initiative. That went better. We did a single sword bearpit.
We played with great swords last, and that was fun. I went out against Jazod first and I was a little nervous. But I actually did really well. It was a lot of work though, I'd forgotten how tiring greatsword is, and how I had bad habits like not breathing when I was throwing. I'll be bringing it out to practice and working all three forms whenever possible.
elspethn insisted on feeding us, it was lovely!
"What?" He said.
"Hit me in the head." He hit me, high on the helm and without much pop. I told him to do it again, and he did, this time a solid hit to the side of the head. The jolt shook me up a little and I fought a little better after that. I felt more present in the moment.
So we started sword and shield, and I got warmed up fighting Jazod and the Hengis. I sucked with Jazod. Better with Hengis, I was able to work on faking a bit. Here's something John Wulfstan gave me that I'm proud of getting the hang of: it's so simple but it's like, my first trick! I threw at Hoss's head, and he blocked it, and I was already spinning the sword in a tight circle to throw at the same spot just as he dropped his shield to see. Bam! Heheheheheh.
Single sword was tough but ok. I worked on being more aggressive, more initiative. That went better. We did a single sword bearpit.
We played with great swords last, and that was fun. I went out against Jazod first and I was a little nervous. But I actually did really well. It was a lot of work though, I'd forgotten how tiring greatsword is, and how I had bad habits like not breathing when I was throwing. I'll be bringing it out to practice and working all three forms whenever possible.
elspethn insisted on feeding us, it was lovely!