Steve
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Welcome! Nice to virtually meet you. I’m a family man myself with two daughters, 15 and 10, who sadly do not want to practice with me unless it’s lightsabers. I’m just sure you’re gonna love the MasterClass. Looking forward to the kick-off this weekend.
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Hi there, Feradach. Welcome! Glad to make your acquaintance. I wander in and out of SCA circles as suits my whims. My wife is more heavily involved with SCA activities, but it is a consistent group we interact with here. It is good to know another from the group. I have a handful of friends who do SCA stuff in Oregon as well. Probably some mutually known, I’d imagine.
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Week 3: 5 day training schedule, the same as Week 2’s plan (post mid-week modifications) and my contingency plans are always the same.
Basics
5 Minutes Flow Drill
5x 12 Poste Progression
5x 5 Thrusts form
5x 5 Measures form
5x Foundational Cuts
5x Gioco Stretto
Feature
Foundational Cuts form 3x for each correction
10x Vadi’s Assault
10x Morozzo’s 2nd Assault
Review MastersClub content for the week
Scholars Live Classes
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Day 1: Went according to plan, except for not making the Scholar’s Live class.
Day 2: Had to take it easy today because of some low back pain. Contingency B used!
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Week 2: 5 day training week, each day following the same format below.
Basics
5 Minutes Flow Drill
5x 12 Poste Progression
5x 5 Thrusts form
5x 5 Measures form
5x Foundational Cuts
5x Gioco Largo
5x Gioco Stretto
Feature
Foundational Cuts form 3x for each correction
Foundational Cuts form at every speed
10x Vadi’s Assault
10x Morozzo’s 2nd Assault
Review MastersClub content for the week
Scholars Live Classes
1 Progressive Playbuild (2 actions per day)
Stretch
Contingency
a) Basics only, 3x each
b) 5 minutes of the Duello Daily
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Days 2-5 were accomplished mostly in whole. Spent a lot more time that expected on the Assaults from the Scholar’s Live classes than I expected, not because it was difficult, but because I was enjoying it so much.
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Day 1 is in the bag. Scratching Foundational Cuts at 5 speeds for the week. I need to have my corrections more “in the body” before I kick that one up in terms of speed. This feels like a lot, at the end of the day it feels like it might have been too much – but there’s 2 new things in here that probably account for more mental fatigue than I’m used to. We’ll see how day 2 goes, and if I feel like I need to cut more from the plan.
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@thomas.belloma I was given your playbuild to perform. Hopefully, I do it some justice. With respect, my submission is here done two times in series for a good look. I look forward to seeing your evaluation of my effort.
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Ah! Excellent. Thanks. I honestly thought we weren’t supposed to pause at poste di Donna lo soprano. Glad to have that pointed out, in particular. All excellent feedback I am happy to work on. Thanks very much!
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Longsword Quickstart Flow:
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You can’t get it more exactly unless you’re me! Great job interpreting what I wrote. Played them side by side and even the pace is the same as when I did it.
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Ah! Yes, I see. Gotcha. Thanks very much!
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Thanks for the corrections @devonboorman I’ve re-shot this one tonight and I see what you’re saying. I spent some quality time with this form today and some of these errors have become habits. I recognize them, and hopefully I’ll get these changes “into my body” post haste.
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I didn’t see a way to re-submit via the course page, so hopefully posting here and tagging you will work? @devonboorman I’m actually glad to re-post this as I shot that video months ago and yeah, it’s not a great demonstration of my work on that form.
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Excellent questions that made me think about my reconstruction critically. In retrospect, this probably isn’t a perfect interpretation.
The offline pass as I was performing it, when I was first reconstructing this, took me too far out of measure, so I shortened the angle of the “offline” part of the offline pass so much that it end ups looking like a simple passing step forward.
The text says it is done “from the parry” which is generic enough of a statement that I interpreted that as… it doesn’t matter which parry just any parry, so I created a starting point that allows me to issue a parry. The easiest one to gain that position was a parry from Donna Sinestra. I suppose, looking back, that I could have started in PDF or PDD and used that offline pass to create the defensive line I need to make the play work.
The crossing, as I saw it (perhaps incorrectly) was achieved at the parry and had/needed to be in place for me to close in to grab the blade.
If you care to, I’d appreciate more dialog to see where I could/should have seen things differently or where my own assumptions have taken too much liberty.