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PRACTICE: The Experience of Training…

Each session provides a new SKILL, CONCEPT, or INSIGHT into our progress. It’s easy to feel good about “Successful” training days, when everything feels easy & natural. BUT equally important are the days when we struggle.

While difficult in the moment, these sessions are simply revealing our next challenge…  

So how do we face these challenges?

We work hard, ask for help when we need it, and work together to improve! 

National Chocolate Cake Day

Dessert is celebration, a little reminder to savor life while working toward your goals. Celebrating your victories (both big and small) with a treat now and then is a healthy way to  fuel your momentum.  

Here’s two recipes we love for you to check out:

“Epic Chocolate Stout Cake with Chocolate Bourbon Sour Cream Frosting” from Domestic Fits.

Flourless Pumpkin + Chocolate Brownies from Erin Lives Whole.

Do you have a favorite chocolate cake recipe?  Share it in the comment below!

Bauernwehr Class Plan (2024-12-21)

Fitness

Kat is out this weekend so I'll be taking on that time slot currently labeled sword fitness! Kat's final class of the year (last weekend) was a fantastic review of small work outs you can do any time.

My goal for this session is to give people space for guided practice, think of it as personal trainer time... but with swords! It's going to be a fun class, I promise!

Skills

Last weekend we discussed BAITING, an action that invites an opponent to strike us, and, having successfully fooled them, allows us to take advantage of their decision.

This week we're going review Baiting and begin to explore FAKING, makes use of actions which threatens an opponent, causing them to react.

Since this week is our final class of the year — I want to leave plenty of open floor time to field questions, or work on something you feel like you want to practice.

Applications

Let's end the year strong! We'll be playing The Game and putting those skills to work!