Swing Low, Sweet Chariot…

I’m pretty much a soggy mess right now; trying to see through salt-streaked glasses while I type and chill down from today’s PT. It probably should be called, “How to sweat buckets in three easy rounds.”
A simple protocol again; three rounds of five minutes each, with kettlebells.
Firstly, you take two kettlebells, and do several [...]

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Third Of Three

So, Friday’s German Longsword practice went well, with Chris spending most of his time bringing Hallie up to speed (she had missed a couple of practices) and Fritz and I worked on the first longsword play, until we took a water break and we worked for most of the rest of the night on falling/rolling. [...]

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The Dead Has Risen

Title inspired by both Hallowe’en and my latest PT.
But first–last Sunday was a brief, simple bodyweight workout that was basically a 10×3. 10 chin ups, 10 push ups, 10 abs. Rinse and repeat for a total of three cycles, with run-stepping “over the line” (sort of a run in place, [...]

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Just a Fluke

Listened to Fluke’s album “Risotto” during the latest kbell session. Simple stuff, but feels good on my still-sore-but-much-better ankle and post-head cold self. Monday night during the football game I felt that sore throat comin’ on, and woke up Tuesday with a terrible headache and sore throat. Tried to work, but didn’t [...]

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The Pointy Part Goes Into the Other Man, No?

Another good day of sweat and bruises! Around eight to ten students showed up to Dagger Seminar 2, as well as guest instructor Devon, who recently moved from his hideout in Portland, Oregon.
It’s definitely such a reward to me as an instructor to see the tired, but smiling faces of the [...]

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To The Point

Looks like there’s to be another dagger seminar already. I’ll be assisting Chris Wheeler again for Dagger/Close-Combat Seminar 2 (subtitled: “just in case you missed rolling around on the ground” ), this Saturday, 3rd of October, over at the Goolrick Gym at Mary Wash. Looks to be a good [...]

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Is this a dagger which I see before me?

Last Friday’s “longsword” practice was to be focused on Medieval/Renaissance dagger work, in prep for the seminar we were giving the next day.
However, a new guy showed up; Chris (the instructor) stuck with him to show him the basics of longsword technique and philosophy (so the guy could decide if he liked it and would [...]

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Ice, Ice Baby

I ended up fencing very hard last night, with perhaps the two most athletic, challenging of the fencers. Indeed, one of the fencers was not technically a student, but had graduated a few years ago, and was back for the weekend. He’s dating one of the students there, the Lovely Rachel.
After the club [...]

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Travelin’ Man

Well, ostensibly, this was to be a low-travel month for me. Indeed, we have gotten to the point where instead of two weeks travel per month for the job, I am to be traveling one week a month.
However. This was also family reunion month, so I headed over to see the family (both [...]

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Morning Wake-Up

Today’s morning wake-me-up was quick, though really quite satisfying. Uhh, no–not that one…
Anyway, just to warm up the body, but take little time before getting ready to head out for today’s gather and hunt I did a simple three minute drill:
1 minute, bokken strikes (air)
1 minute, kettlebell swings, single hand, switch hands [...]

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