June 16th

I got my bike back from the repair shop today and celebrated with a 45-minute ride and then five minutes with the sword.

Also spent some time cleaning up storage areas in preparation for further renovations to the training space.

Weekend adventures included hiking out to harvest devil’s club and do some trail maintenance.

June 10th

Day 3 of cyclist training. I rode for ~45 minutes in total but paused to rescue an exhausted bumble bee who was floundering on the pavement of the old highway. She rode home on my knuckles and received some honey.

Rescuing the bee reminded me of an important personal truth: Compassion is the height of human achievement.

As students…

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June 9th

I took my bike out again and received more mosquito bites in five minutes of riding through the woods than I have all spring. At least it inspired me to pedal faster.

10 minutes with the sword, attacking the rope and practicing basic phrases. Right shoulder still complains a lot, but it will get stronger with time.

Today I met a tiny old…

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June 8th

First sunny day in a while. I took the opportunity to get out on a 30-minute bike ride and followed that up with 15 minutes of sword time.

I need to work towards moving my training session earlier in the day.

June 7th

Sleep hygiene checklist:

Bedoom is dark? Yes.

Bedroom is quiet? Yes.

Bedroom is cool? Yes.

Bedroom only for sleeping? Well, I no longer hang out in my bedroom, but I’m guilty of browsing on my phone in bed. I will be more intentional about no devices in bed other than for dream journalling, and while my sleep schedule is fairly healthy,…

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June 5

“Rest” day today.

I had very long and complicated dreams, including a segment where I was trying to deliver a pizza during some kind of war. I am stopped at a checkpoint, my package is inspected, and I am told that I may not proceed because I can’t fight with a pizza. I say watch me.

5 mins with the sword today. I had the intention to go on…

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June 4th

Another awful night of sleep. I allowed my practice of bedtime meditation to be disrupted by the move and I plan to reinstate that. Meditating within a couple hours of sleep also has the benefit of increasing one’s chances of having lucid dreams and it would definitely be neat to spend more time as a dragon.

I realized this morning…

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June 3rd

So I woke up from a truly disturbing nightmare at around 3:30, then proceeded to stay awake until exactly 4:20 AM just for the sake of posting “blaze it” to my Discord server. Priorities.

Food remains much the same: Rice or rice noodles with vegetables, beef, and egg. I’m not getting tired of it, but I do need to perfect the art…

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June 2nd

Dreamed about lions.

Rice, eggs, and beef bowl for breakfast. Went grocery shopping but became stupid and forgot to buy broccoli.

Moved the barbell and resistance bands into the salle. Found medicine balls and skipping ropes but no dumbbell. Where is the dumbbell? I am manifesting finding the dumbbell. I love the feeling of having found…

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June 1st

Woke up exhausted. Made a bowl of rice vermicelli with beef, egg, and vegetables that ended up lasting all day.

I brought some weight plates into the training space. Where is my dumbbell? Why did I only buy one? What was I trying to prove? Answers to these questions and more at some indefinite point in the future. It’s probably in the…

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I have returned! Health issues and a very large project resulted in an unplanned hiatus, but now that one of the most stressful aspects of said project is wrapping up I feel safe to commit to my training log again.

Items to focus on for June:

• healthy diet and sleep hygiene, always
• setting up the new training space
• daily physical conditioning
• staying…

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March 4th

Drank too much water. Productivity definitely lowered due to frequent toilet breaks.

30 minutes of active training! Started with flow cutting to the rope, and then worked on specific “phrases”, including a simple parry-and-thrust combo from multiple guards, and a more bougie attack-to-miss followed by deflection and fendente.

Very…

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Goals!

Food/Nutrition:

• Drink more water
• Eat delicious meat salads

 

Activity:

• Continue daily yoga/mobility work
• Spend 30 minutes training each day
• Experiment with combining fencing practice and cardio

Thurs February 18th

1) Food: Turkey wings and more moose salad. Avocado supply is good. Tomato supply is depleted. Lettuce is critically low.

2) Mobility: Day 4 yoga. Actually got this done before noon for once. Progress?

3) Practice: 30 mins watching vids and 15 minutes aggressively beating up the rope!!!

Goal for tomorrow is to do yoga and…

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Weds February 17th

1) Food: Chicken salads, more chicken, plain yogurt with berries.

2) Mobility: Day 3 yoga. It was more active but less difficult??? ~35m

3) Practice: 20 mins of unarmed poste progression.

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Tues February 16th

1) Food: Moose salads, cheese, boiled eggs, and one cucumber (rage-eaten after peeling boiled eggs.) Success?

2) Mobility: Day 2 of a 30 day yoga series. Approximately 37 minutes of oof.

3) Practice: ~20 minutes on foundational cuts form plus 10 or so minutes just beating up the rope and knocking stuff over in the living room.

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Daily Plan

1) Eat nutritious diet

2) 30m mobility work

3) 30m practice

 

Work through Master’s Class material until complete.

 

Backup Plan

1) At least avoid day-drinking

2) 5m mobility work

3) 5m practice

 

Backup-backup Plan

1) Lie on the floor and think about sword fighting

2) ???

3) You tried

Hello! I’m Brooke.

Fencing is one of my passions and I have been studying for several years in between routine existential crises.

Some of my other hobbies include writing, drawing, making liver popsicles, and crying alone while listening to 1980s power ballads.

I believe that talent is a scam and that the only thing separating a person from…

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