Completed Day2, a make up for Monday. Read and trying to understand the chapter on Measure from Capoferro.

Completed day 1 starting from Tuesday.

Starting from week two:

Day 1: Injury recovery flow drill, pinning one foot down and flow without breaking momentum for 10 mins, switch side. Spadone Assaulti 10mins
Day 2: Pinned Foot Flow 10mins each, Spadone Assaulti 10mins, review Capoferro.
Day 3: PFF 10mins/foot, Assaulti, review Giganti

Day 4: PFF 10mins/foot, Assaulti, learn a saber…

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23th to 29th
For the past few days, I did basic 100 fandenti from both sides and throw in some guard change on how I felt like. Around 15mins.
Plus the stretches after the training.

For today, I finally was able to do some empty Rapier lunges despite still being in physio.

July 22th

Learned Marozzo’s Spadone 2nd Assautis part 1.
Workout on shoulders and arm with free weights 30mins
Stretched 30mins

Recovered from break up and old injuries, coming back with better helps.
Goals:
1. get familiar with Two Hand and Sword and Buckler Assautis
2. workout everyday.
3. stretch everyday.

Recovered from break up and old injuries, coming back with better helps.
Goals:
1. get familiar with Two Hand and Sword and Buckler Assautis
2. workout everyday.
3. stretch everyday.

Peacefully went on separate ways with my partner but had a very heavy emotion through out the day. manage to do some Assauti.

week one catch up with 100 fendanti to keep it simple.

Lost track in life again, back on the track.
Goals:
1: Learn Assautis
2: Conditioning for the up coming role with swords.

It only took one day of stretching less to rebound my sleeping pattern back to a night cat, despite my efforts on shutting down electronic devices.

Today is Friday here, and I got a dinner with friend, so I am a extra stretching right now for compensation.

Still have not know the Intro like the back of my hand, will held the phone on my left…

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It’s crazy to know everyone around me is getting it; very important for me to not get it for I got a nice gig that would jump start my acting career comin up. All the more reasons to hide in a cave and do Assautis till things died out!

I hope you get better soon, please continue to check for any lasting effects, I’ve heard people get all sorts…

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Note:
Recording the effects from the third Vax on me:
I got 3 shots of AZ and the third one was on last Wednesday. The low fever made me really drowsy when awake and took many naps during the day, so my nights were very sober and a bit disoriented about concept of time from the super fast day time changes.

Nothing really sore like the second…

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Only two days in and I’m feeling the differents. Fall asleep at around 10pm on Tuesday and got up on Wednesday at 4;30am; the world felt like mine.

Week 3

Goal: adjust sleeping pattern to normal.
Method: 1. solo training on assautis at least 15 mins on both hands two hours before bed.
2. use what I’ve learned from this month’s workshop about interpreting the manuscripts to do some bed time reading instead of browsing social media.

3.…

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for the past week I could not do too much.
studied the assautis with my dagger and keeping the footwork within two pace in my study area.

I’ve made the call with many talks with the members who I let go. Everything will be back on track soon with healthier ways of doing things. BTW, I’ve asked a newly formed group in the neighboring county to join DTV for material and guidance, they don’t know English but I’ll be helping them.

Back from months in China and finished moving back.

Situation: Gained 7KG during all the troubles. Had been rigorously attending physio. Kicked out toxic members who supported the Cult HEMA group in Taipei and decided to pause the group practice.

Goals: 1 Dail back weight 7KG with the same muscle mass.

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Day1 Thursday:

Did a good speed 3 slowplay with different kinds of weapon with partner for about 20 mins. Focused on smoothness and the connection with the weapons to breath, and not rushing when seeing any green lights.

Week 1
Goal: Just be willing to pick up any swords without selfdebt and guilt and do solo drills of any kind or play with my partner; get back on the wagon.

November is my quarantine month in Shanghai for three weeks starting from the 7th.
Will just follow the solo short practice from the guide line and do some convict training in the hotel room.
Mixing up conditioning with solo drills.
Start the read on Thibault during the quarantine.

Week 1:
Topic: Grappling from the Outside Line.

Schedule: Full Focus for only 15 mins, Solo or Partnered

Plan: Use DuelloTV’s Videos for lessons

Contingency: In case of clouded by Brain Fog or any other ADHD symptoms, instead of judging myself, just go into the rabbit hole on Swordplay topics on youtube or articles or manuscripts.

Monthly Aim: Focus Daily on Swordplay for only 15 mins, no less no more. Keeping up during the 21 days quarantine in China.

Mustered up a great deal of courage and took an month-long acting workshop at the beginning of August. I was expected to have to deal with some trauma which was caused by my acting family business 12 years ago, but instead I took a full blow of PTSD. I started to lose a lot of hair and weight and had to cleared everything off the timetable…

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Day 2:
1. Read 15mins on Fiore’s wrestling to find some moves that has clearer Stringerings.
2. Medium Practice. 15mins deep breathing exercise and 10mins joints warm up
3. Dente di Cinghiaro’s three defenses against throwing sword, cut and thrust of a sword and throwing spears. Solo visualization. 15mins
4. Stretch for 15mins, or more.
5. Do…

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Week 3: Focus on Stringering
Day 1:
1. Read 15 mins on Rapier’s Stringering
2. Short Practice on Porta de Ferro with initiating attack on different quadrants

Quick reflection on July:
Could not break into the new goal of video taping my weekly progress. Need to work on letting go of big and blurry goals and really put in the small ones, this way my perfectionism will be broken down and my emotional regulations can starts to grow on a healthier work load for long term progression.

August Goals:
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Day 5:
A friend came to my place to talk about hosting his own study group and we shared knowledge.
We did some dagger work besides the sharing.

Day 4:
Done the Defense Against the Reverso on Chinghiara and tossed in some different angles with different cuts from visualization.

Day 3:
Did Defenses Against the Descending Mandritto on DTV, upgrade it into some different ways of ribbon cuts.

Day2:

Worked on DTV’s cuts and thrusts from Chinghiara and just exploring how to use the minimum muscles to get the max results.
Felt like lunging with a secondary in rapier.

Day 1:

Did the Defenses Against the Thrust lesson.
Talked about how to help each other with a local practitioner.
Got my AZ shot and increased the chances of being alive to be able to do swordplay!

Week 4:
Goal: follow through the DTV materials on Dente al Chinghiara with each lesson on each day as minimum practice. Toss in some forms and readings for extra.

Starting to get comfortable telling myself to check out the journal now, and definitely feeling better with the routine building up with it’s help.

Week 3:

Struggling to click open the journal but I did get some small practices through out this week, just grabbing the sword and do some form flows and basic cuts from different guards.

Day 5:
had a lengthily discussion with a HEMA practitioner friend about the Duello’s understandings of aspects of the art. Did some dagger work with him.

Felt really great to share about Duello.

Day 4:

longsword and dagger forms and some longsword ribbon cut solo drills.

Day 3:
Slow work with flows with my brother

DAY1&2
overwhelmed myself with work and using weekend practices to compensate.

Week 2:
Goal: play with flows and forms of longsword and dagger

Day 5:
slowly grind through from start to part 7, trying to have all the drills in my head and applying reasons for each movement. Getting used to my small space.

Day 4:
Part 7 done and did some extra retention!

Day 3:
Part 5 and 6 done. This time only slow speed. Felt good pushing myself.

Victory Lap! was actually feeling very down today, but I applied myself to do the minimum and build from that to feel fun in the practice for a bit.

Day 2:
Part 3&4 done. got more moves, so I explored them with some more flow again with slow and fast speeds.
stretched.

thanks Devon, June was a very important turning point for me, really got to reflect and check on myself.

After thoughts.
It felt great, I got what the forms easily and I started with speed two and work my way up to speed 4 with a deltin blunt and stopped before the speed would break my structure. I played with short stance and wide stance as well. And seeing what my adversary would do in my head all the time, as the videos imply.

Day 1:
I started with 1 set of 4 40sec planks to get warm up.
Soloed the part 1 and part 2 with slow motion on the youtube videos.
split stretches for cooldown.

Week 1:
Goal: Would like to learn the Longsword Scholar Assault for future solo training, or even contingency plan.

Back again with July.

In July I would like to film my progress every week. And use DTV materials to get back to mental shape for the ending of the lockdown.