Knighthood

The 100 level class is half-way through and as I’d been reflecting on the class now that I’ve reached the mid-point, I made the decision to step away. The reason I shared with the lead instructor was the same issue I noted in my last post: Time needed to do drills at home and while doing okay now, I know I’m not going to be able to skate by on just a scattering of drill practices a week in the future. Between work and commute, particularly if I have a long day, I really don’t have time to do…

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The miss was that there wasn’t a post week before last week and last week and that was because I was away from Seattle, traveling on business for the first and not feeling good for the second. Between the two off weeks, the hit, is that I was at class AND it was a continuation of what was covered the week before. As if there wasn’t enough drills with A and B, there is also Drill C that was learned. The class also started learning the first part of the first fight sequence during the first class I missed,…

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If I had to sum up this week’s class in one word that word would be ‘drills.’ We went through two drills that we need to all do regularly, as in daily, to help us commit to muscle memory the different attacks and defenses that we learned the week before AND with that to improve and work on our footwork. When you watch the Knights perform, carefully watch their movement and you’ll see that it’s a dance of steel and sweat. Feet and weapon move in tandem. What may seem like chaos, isn’t. They know how to read their…

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Class started on the evening of Monday, Sept. 16. Out of the nearly dozen who’d signed up/expressed an interest in joining the class there were only six of us who showed up, and the majority of us are women! Two others who have been through this before are also auditing the class. It’s rather cool for the class to be majority women (who says we don’t like to play with swords). We were given plastic wasters (training swords) to use for our 100 level class, which will last for the next two-and-a-half months or so. We won’t start using…

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