Nov 27 2008
Wednesday 27th November
This week was a very productive with my class working very hard at the cuts and defences. They drilled themselves on foot work and the 6 cuts and 4 defences.
Michael also returned for his test and past it with flying colours.
Towards the end of the lesson, Mphango and Michael lined up to test their guards against everyone elses cut that they had been learning, each person had to use fencing steps to cloes in on Michael or Mphango then step and deliver a cut when they thought they were close enough. At the start everyone kept trying to hit Michael and Mphango’s swords, but after a little correction, they started trying to hit Michael and Mphango.
And suddenly they started being more successful!
One fantastic piece of skill was shown by Hasham (sorry if I spelt it wrong, I don’t have my list with me!), who threw a cut 1 at me, which I blocked. I then asked him how he could hit me quickly, he promptly flipped his sword over, stepped to the side and thrust. PERFECT!!!
