Thursday Night Fight!
Apr. 21st, 2006 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guenievreSo this is my arm right now:
Pretty, eh? That's several figher practices' worth of bruises, all stacked on top of each other as I keep doing the same bloody thing - banging my forearm into the edge of my shield. Well, it's not my shield at the moment, which is a large part of the problem. With luck I'll finish MY shield tonight or tomorrow, along with significantly more armor than I currently have... and maybe a pell sword that actually fits me (one of Nick's swords is a reasonable length for me, I have no idea why he has one that short but it works - however, the pell sword is NOT the right length, so I keep choking up on it, which is possible because it has no hilt at the moment. BUT... when I do that, and throw a wrap, the excess handle hits me, you guessed it, right in that bruise...)
Last night's practice was interesting - it was somehow much less fun than the last two. Nick and I were the only fully armored fighters there, and the way he was trying to teach me vs. the way I actually learn was not matching up very well. ::shrug:: Such is life, I have an idea of some things I need to work on at any rate...namely everything. Things that make perfect sense on the pell all FLEE out of my head when I am against a real person... so yeah, where I said interesting before I really meant frustrating, but at least I stayed in armor when I *really* didn't want to, that was my victory for the evening.
Pretty, eh? That's several figher practices' worth of bruises, all stacked on top of each other as I keep doing the same bloody thing - banging my forearm into the edge of my shield. Well, it's not my shield at the moment, which is a large part of the problem. With luck I'll finish MY shield tonight or tomorrow, along with significantly more armor than I currently have... and maybe a pell sword that actually fits me (one of Nick's swords is a reasonable length for me, I have no idea why he has one that short but it works - however, the pell sword is NOT the right length, so I keep choking up on it, which is possible because it has no hilt at the moment. BUT... when I do that, and throw a wrap, the excess handle hits me, you guessed it, right in that bruise...)
Last night's practice was interesting - it was somehow much less fun than the last two. Nick and I were the only fully armored fighters there, and the way he was trying to teach me vs. the way I actually learn was not matching up very well. ::shrug:: Such is life, I have an idea of some things I need to work on at any rate...namely everything. Things that make perfect sense on the pell all FLEE out of my head when I am against a real person... so yeah, where I said interesting before I really meant frustrating, but at least I stayed in armor when I *really* didn't want to, that was my victory for the evening.
