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Another Fight Night comes to a close. New 8" thick mat meant lots of falling & tossing of selves. Working still on my "holy fuck, you want me to deliberately FALL?" adverse reaction.
Did the Filipino fighting sticks thing tonight for the first time where I wasn't a total knob. Even got the sequence going for a while. Personal tricks that worked - look at opponent's eyes and let my brain go blank - every time I screwed up badly, it was because I started trying to count or think. Also, the footwork made it MUCH easier, dunno why. Also got to give N a disarm that he really liked, but made total sense to me (when we were doing the "okay - now you've blocked this, what can you do to counter" free form part of the exercise).
Really enjoyed tonight - working with C & L & N in various combinations was much fun.
And Saturday, I start working on the Basic certification (actor combatant) - so it only took me 30 years to actually get my groove on properly for this kind of fighting. I'm not sure if I had found the right teacher 20 years ago that it would have been safe or sane. I envy C her strength, youth and flexibility now, but I think I needed the maturity and self control that I have now, that I never had then...
Whee - this is fun.
Another Fight Night comes to a close. New 8" thick mat meant lots of falling & tossing of selves. Working still on my "holy fuck, you want me to deliberately FALL?" adverse reaction.
Did the Filipino fighting sticks thing tonight for the first time where I wasn't a total knob. Even got the sequence going for a while. Personal tricks that worked - look at opponent's eyes and let my brain go blank - every time I screwed up badly, it was because I started trying to count or think. Also, the footwork made it MUCH easier, dunno why. Also got to give N a disarm that he really liked, but made total sense to me (when we were doing the "okay - now you've blocked this, what can you do to counter" free form part of the exercise).
Really enjoyed tonight - working with C & L & N in various combinations was much fun.
And Saturday, I start working on the Basic certification (actor combatant) - so it only took me 30 years to actually get my groove on properly for this kind of fighting. I'm not sure if I had found the right teacher 20 years ago that it would have been safe or sane. I envy C her strength, youth and flexibility now, but I think I needed the maturity and self control that I have now, that I never had then...
Whee - this is fun.
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