January’s coaching call is now available for replay. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/669191691

December’s coaching call is ready for review. Enjoy, happy holidays and the best of the new year to everyone!

First half summary:

– back on the food diary for a while. It worked so well for me before. I want to know exactly what I eat each day and how much. “MyNetDiary” is my app of choice here.

– as much as I diss Apple’s “exercise ring”, I do plan on closing this at least 5 times per week. That’s going well.

– I have a kettlebell workout video series.…

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A renewal of sorts

November’s coaching call is now ready for viewing. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/648337508

Lots more scurrying about the city today on foot. Plus some skip rope when I got home.

Yesterday I saw a good buddy and had some cheat food. Today was much more sensible eating.

A lot of huffing around errands all over the city all day. That will do.

40 minutes up and down the hills of the neighbourhood today, plus a little jump rope.

Watched Interstellar again. I like space movies. I like family movies. McConaughey? Meh.

40 min and 4k around the neighbourhood. Always raining.

Honestly, I ate a huge late lunch and did not feel like jumping rope with a brick in my gut.

Nov 6

Jump rope and (tiny) kettlebell. 20 min

Massage calves and a bit of hip flexor. 10 min

Got a bit of Dream Theatre and Steven Wilson thrown into the mix today. Nice.

4k and 44 flights climbed on combined walk/run timer. Discovered an amazing trail. Going back there for sure.

Nov 4

7.2km stroll around the hood.

Nov 3

20 minutes skipping rope and light kettlebell. That’s what I’ve packed in my travel kit, so you’ll see a lot of that this month. Apple Music has a channel called Spock’s Beard and Similar. That’s usually what’s playing.

10 minutes massage gadget on the hamstrings. Done!

Nov 2

45 minutes brisk walk to check out the neighbourhood I’m temporarily staying in. Plenty of hills.

Nov 1

20 minutes combination of skipping rope and light kettlebell range of motion exercises.

10 minutes massaging my (notoriously tight) calves with my new massage gizmo from Costco (it was next to the checkout chocolate bars, I couldn’t resist)

Simply put, 30 minutes a day. Let’s see where this goes!

September’s coaching call is now up. Great topics including thrust defenses and shoulder stability. Enjoy!

Hi Everyone. August coaching call is here. Enjoy!

July Coaching Call. Enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/576488315

My goals for this month are to:

• increase the time of sword in hand, even if I can just add one more day in.
• Monitor my 4 controllables: activity, food, sleep, stress.
• get one or two of my basses set up properly (neck relief, string height) and get a practice routine started with amp at the ready (frictionless)
• have my desk moved into its…

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https://vimeo.com/565336053

Enjoy the coaching call replay! Cheers! Greg

Reminded of my three word challenge “read more books”, I got my Fabris reading in this morning.

June entry: excited to set up my training space a bunch more this week. And excited to teach tomorrow’s workshop on slow and scaling speed sparring. See you there!

May 23 Coaching Call:

I’ve really been enjoying the rapier (light) workouts in my online teaching debut this month. I taught a program called SwordFit for years in Vancouver, and have brought the same format forward for the rapier. I like!

Great to chat with you today in live class, Steve. I do take time to rant at my journal, the steering wheel, and the nature chickens I meet in the woods. I find it therapeutic. Cheers!

I’ve had mixed success in the use of a weigh scale in the past. It was a great help to me when doing my big turnaround about seven years ago. It became an obsessive liability a few years ago when I was trying to use it as a lifestyle control mechanism. Now that I’ve got a better perspective on moulding lifestyle again I’m considering getting…

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Goals for May are to KEEP GOING on my shift I began in February. Activity, food, stress, sleep.

There’s no official submission needed for that assignment. It was means as a do-it-for-yourself kind of thing. Feel free to post it into the forums somewhere if you like. Hope that helps.

hi Jeff. Good question, and one that every practitioner of any art comes across eventually. I have found that there are simply chapters of life that allow for more intense practice and longer practice sessions, and seasons of life that do not. It’s in those lean seasons that staying even tangentially connected to the art has payoffs, like…

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Today’s (April 18) coaching call is available for on-demand viewing:

https://vimeo.com/538527402

We hope so, and pray for peace everywhere.

That said, it is possible to glimpse the “true” fight from a distance by exploring its many facets, without actually entering into one:

• speed
• intensity
• cost of losing
• glory of winning
• bravery
• mercy
• mindfullness
• mindlessness
• bullet time

The list goes on.

Not logging as much as I could, but getting my workout in every day—kettlebells and hiking, mostly. New motivations have me moving and pursuing goals. Picked up a sword holder. I’ll post pics once I have it set up.

Spent most of the day working, but did get in a big long walk up the mountain. That was good. Picked up my sidesword for a very short rope-cutting session. Kept food in check. I might get to squeeze in a Fabris reading yet. A good day.

hi Thomas. Thanks for sending this in. The amount of work and thought you put into this is obvious. Bravo!

#1 Consider what “passing offline” might look like in that maneuver.

I really like #3, and it follows beautifully what we studied in the German swordplay workshop today for the Krumphau–a “crooked” breaking strike against the sword.…

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I’d say this week was a win of sorts. I didn’t do as much training as I wanted to, but I ended up doing much more than minimum.

Sunday night I tested out the Big practice for week 2. That was good. I enjoyed it. Those largo and stretto defense forms are monster! And with added footwork assignments in there it made it really interesting.

I’m…

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hi @paul . Are you wanting to post this for peer review? Use your thread here.

Or are you wanting to submit it for Instructor review? Use this form here.

Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers!

hi @paul . Are you wanting to post this for peer review? Use your thread here.

Or are you wanting to submit it for Instructor review? Use this form here.

Let me know if you need anything else. Cheers!

hi Paul. Did you send me your DuelloTV account email address? Send it to info@duello.tv and I can set you up. Cheers!

hi @paul . What’s the assessment you’re working on? Can you provide a URL or the name of the assessment? Thanks.

Use this thread to post your training log activities for March. Hit ‘Reply’ and let us know what you’re doing.

Be as long, short, routine or inventive as you like!

Another month. Another fresh start.

Built and tested the timing for next week’s Short and Medium practice sessions. I liked it.

hi Jeffrey. I got your second submission, and it looks good. Your cuts are all there, and you made good corrections based on feedback given.

Continue to work on getting a little “longer” in your reach. You don’t want to over-extend, but you can either reach further with your point, or let the arms do their work further out in front of…

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hi @jade.standing . Thanks for sending this in! Every piece was there, and your cutting/thrusting order was good, with the sword moving out in front of you (it’s really good at the start of a sequence). Your cutting lines are accurate with good edge alignment.

Watch those roverso mezzani half cuts: your first one (B6) appears to use a tutta…

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Hi Stela. I don’t think you’re alone–several students found assessment email in their spam box.

You can review the status of every assessment on your Students Assignments page. Click the disclosure triangle to see all of the assessments submitted and their status. For each assessment, click on the assessment title or the comments link to be…

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Contingency: Read Fabris for 5 minutes. Thrusting is better than cutting, he says.

hi @david.schullinger-krause . Sorry I missed the timing on this post. The things to focus on go in this order:

1. Posture
2. (Order of) Movement
3. (Blade) Control
4. Measure
5. Tempo

And much else after that. But the first two are the biggies. I hope you enjoyed your session! Let us know how it went.