Practice

[fbhjr]

Yesterday was well above freezing (60F/15C) so a lot of snow melted. Although today was only just above freezing a lot of snow is sill melting.


This means mud and lots of it.


As with last week Tom and Jose showed up. Jose could only stay 30 minutes, so didn’t do a lot. But, Tom worked on a bunch of things.


In a couple of weeks we’re doing a class on "Sword fighting in the time of Shakespeare" for a science fiction convention at a women’s college.
I can’t afford to buy enough swords to teach 12 people at a time. So, we’re working on substitutes.
We tried dowels and they work fairly well.


But, we need to do better daggers because using our fingers isn’t doing it.


On the way home we noticed that since they built the new bridge they have totally removed the old. I’m not sure if they’re building another one in parallel, or if we are always going to be deflected off to the side…

Comments

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

I do believe they are adding more bridge to the bridge.

[daturabelle.livejournal.com]

the class you're going to do at the sci-fi convention sounds awesome.
hope the dowel works out :)

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

We have some old bokken too. But we are trying to simulate a straight but flexible rapier. And, I didn't have 12 of them.
So, we are using the dowels. First pass seems good.
The real question is: would chopsticks work as daggers?

[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

Shorter dowels? Honestly, I like the idea of a finger dagger.

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Yeah we're having this debate. You and I apparently think alike :)

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I'm on team chopsticks for this one.

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

Me too with team chop stick. You, or your opponent cannot drop the finger dagger, but someone can force a chopstick dagger away from their opponent.

[endlessblush.livejournal.com]

It looks like you are battling with wands Harry Potter style :)

[cissa.livejournal.com]

YES!