Adiantum Fight Practice.

So, technically speaking I don’t have much to say about heavy practice last night. I made no breakthroughs, had no insights, didn’t fight particularly well. But I got out there, swung and thrust, took some hits, and quit when I felt my shoulder tightening up. So there’s that.

Then I had a very interesting chat with Geneva Day about ‘starting over’ with heavy fighting. And about training techniques and teaching styles: all that stuff we tend to neglect in the SCA, with our emphasis on “full-speed open sparring”.

Finally, Geneva and I talked technique with a boy, oh, maybe eight years old? He was fun, and had a better (intuitive?) grasp of what’s possible and what isn’t than most kids that age. He could grow up to be a smart man.

Thanks all.

-Viscount Ambrose, KSCA

MEDUSA: A Tale of Vengeance; SALTARAE

So, another (preposterously) productive day slaving over a hot keyboard. Just short of 5000 words, according to the word of Word. More important, MEDUSA’s leading edge is now at page 204....SALTARAE is less than 60 pages total, so I wouldn’t say it has a leading edge. The other cool thing about this is, that the split was about even between the two projects: about 2500 into each, which is 5.3 pages into Medusa and 6 pages into Saltarae. I HAVE NO IDEA why this is going so well right now, and I refuse to analyze the whys and wherefores. It’s workin’, I ain’t gonna fix it.