The Weekly Warfare   Musings martial from across the SCA

Made it out to practice, finally, last night. I have not fought since December 19th, and frequent readers of the Warfare may know that I get twitchy after one week without stabbing people.

There’s a practice up in Athens that I’d been meaning to go to, on Mondays, but it’s an hour long drive and I wasn’t sure what the quality would be. Maybe when it gets warmer.

I fought Brendan deHay (who’s commented here before) and his lady, Raven. Also met Sir Morgan (who I recognized from Gulf Wars, but didn’t realize was a MoB, which led to a “How is the knight teaching the new person fencing?”), but he’s injured himself so he wasn’t fencing.

Raven and Brendan are both fun fights.  She’s newer to the art, I think, but is admirably aggressive.  He’s been around apparently since the SCA was “The Society for Creative Contemporaneity”, and a former Atlantian, and gives a good energetic fight.  Brendan, if you’re reading this, how long would you say you and she have been in it? Also, since you read this, how would you describe South Downs’s approach to melee?

Despite planning to claim a certain flabbiness after the holiday binge eating, and the 5 degree temp outside, I still felt like I was moving pretty well, and the time off has let my right shoulder heal up a bit more. Still need to do the strengthening exercises more regularly than I currently am (which is “When I remember”).

Also, I need to remember to not brain dump Giganti whenever I meet new people. Well, maybe.