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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.