Walpurgis against prima custodia

Instructor called half an hour befote the lesson to say he would not be able to come, back at home I wrapped my hand and did some shadowboxing. I have never trained any martial art that involves punching, so it's really a freestyle crapshoot just to make my shoulders and back hurt from strain the next days.

This time of the year I am as always breaking hearts and by breaking hearts I mean telling my various instructors that I do not intend to show up to the yearly exam

Yesterday i was pacing between spars thinking to myself "it's been a while since I've blogged anything but the trainings have been pretty average" then at the next spar I forgot to change gloves. We were alternating sword and buckler and longsword, I did not put on my Lobsters so of course I got decked on the right hand pinky. It's so fucking busted now there's the Big Tournament next month and now I can't spar fuck my alber baka life

This evening we trained light because of Easter's big fatty meals. There is a new guy that is a big buff dude, shortsighted, and it's still learning the ropes even if he can keep up with everything on the physical side. He was not doing the obsessio in halpschilt against prima custodia right because he is not really familiar with anything you need to get right about it, including structuring a block, closing lines, gaining angles, pressuring etc. We are not really supposed to explain each other stuff so I resorted to saying "ok just watch me doing it against you" and in just two small forward steps I had the point to his neck. He was like ????? really surprised?? I did it again and he still was flabbergasted the tecnique was so swift and lethal. I should have been slower and talk him throu the tought process of why I was doing what and how but alas we are not supposed to teach each other. We people training swordmanship for years sometimes forget we are really that much more proficient with weapons than a random dude, taller and heavier and more built than us, with the same weapon.

There was just three of us yesterday at the training and after warmup&legwork we sparred one hour straight fr fr in my last spar I was not able to do a thing anymore and I just got beat up badly, then went to kneel on the sidelines trying not to cry for the fatigue. Now my knee hurts.