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[gothwalk]

Fight practice this evening, and I was in armour and fighting for the first time in months. It was good. I was tired fairly quickly, but not as quickly as I had expected. And I've discovered the secret of defeating THL Cernac - you need to get in close, where his reach is no use, and then beat him in the extremities. Of course, it'll only work for a few weeks. There was also the uncomfortable discovery that my armour - Visby "coat of plate", made of leather and pickle barrel - is a little less covering on the right-hand side of the chest than I thought it was. Specifically, it does not quite cover the nipple, and a blow from Cernac, pulled back a bit after I called good on the previous blow, grazed it. It took a good ten seconds of standing there with my jaw clenched before I could speak without yelping. Very undignified. The fact that his next landing blow was firmly across the buttocks encouraged me to step up my own aggression a touch - which works wonders. I begin to see the point of fighting when hungover.

Comments

[graylion.livejournal.com]

*g* I told you my nipple story, didn't I? And yes beginner fighters have to be very aggressive, you are not good enough to hang back.

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

There's a certain beauty to just going nuts in fighter practice - particularly as a beginner. It was the only place I could go, work out this aggression, and know that I wasn't going to seriously injure anyone.

And, yeah, graylion is right. Crazy-monkey-ass-in-your-face is the only way to go when you haven't really honed the skill. First and best clear, honest, victory I ever won, was charging screaming and just slamming the bejesus out of my opponent's guard to force it out of line. That whopping power shot may be about all I had, but I certainly got as much mileage out of it as could be reasonably expected. :-)