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What stood out to you?<div>

The different option that are discovered in interpretation.

Did you have any big “aha moments” in your training?

Connections between the German and Italian thoughts on swordplay.

What was most challenging?

Trying to explore certain techniques without a partner.

Did you meet your own objectives?

Yes

What do you think you might do differently next week?

Attend some online classes.

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Week 3

Topic: Prescribed

<b style=”font-size: inherit;”>Schedule: Tues – Friday 2 to 3 hours

<b style=”font-size: inherit;”>Plan:

a. Tues – Short Practice

b. Wed – Medium Practice

c. Thurs – Big Practice and Group Practice

d. Fri – Short Practice and Record videos

Contingency: Short Practice

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Day 4 – Big Practice and Group practice consisted of learning messer plays & sparring with messer and longsword

Day 5 – Short practice and recorded some videos for review

Day 6 – Attended Sword to Sword’s Schutzenfest – an all day event that consisted of a wide range of martial events which were practiced in medieval Germany.

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Day 1 – Sick day

Day 2 – 20 minute stationary bike and Short Practice

Day 3 – Push ups, pull ups, punch sit ups, lungs, squats and Medium Practice

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Solo Playbuild for LS5

1. Your opponent is waiting in posta di donna

2. From porta di ferro mezza, you enter measure with a passing step and make a guard transition to posta di donna.

3. Your opponent strikes mandritto fendente to the left side of your head while passing forward.

4. You parry with a half cut mandritto fendente into posta breve with offline retreating step.

5. Your opponent makes a cavatione under your sword thrusting on the other side while making a passing step

6. You make a volta stabile of the sword while making a pivot step to the left, and begin to extend your sword to exchange the thrust passing forward.

7. Your opponent makes a tutta volta of the sword while passing offline and then strikes mandritto fendente with pivot step to the left side of your head.

8. You make a volta stable of the body into rear weight posta fenestra on the left and thrust with a two passing steps. Exit with two steps back making a volta stable of the sword into posta longa.

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March – Week 2 Training Log

Topic: A little German, a little Italian, and a little
of my own.

Schedule: Monday – Friday 2 to 3 hours

Solo and Partner Practice.

Plan:

Monday – Watch German for Italians Workshop and Practice

Tuesday – Short Practice

Wednesday – Big Practice

Thursday – Short Practice and Group Training

Friday – Medium Practice

Contingency: Short Practice and review German guards and
strikes.

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Victory Laps. Trained 5 days out of the week.

Course Corrections. Still trying to find a partner to train with. Working on different options.

Aha Moments. Need partner time to train some of the issues I have while sparring.

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Day 5 – Short practice, beginning with a yard work warm up of mowing, weed eating, edging.

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Day 4 – Small Practice, 1 hour messer practice, and 30 minutes sparring ( tried to focus on Gioco Largo and Gioco Stretto Defense techniques).

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Day 3 –

30 stationary bike HITT workout

15 cool down / warm up

Short and Big Practice

except the Longsword
Fundamentals III: Timing, Defense & Sparring course

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Day 2

Parry with retreat, then attack
– 2 sets of 10 reps

Parry with pass back, then
attack – 2 sets of 10 reps

Defensive footwork: fade then
attack – 20 reps

Practice the Gioco Largo
Defense Form – 5 reps. Emphasizing movement of the
weapon ahead of the body in counter-attack

Cutting through longa with
fendente – 2 sets of 10 reps

Thrusting through longa with
posta breve – 2 sets of 10 reps

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Day 1 –

Watched the replay of the workshop and practiced the Guards and Strikes during the workshop and after on my dummy for about 15.

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Victory Laps. Completed most of what I planned for the week.

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<strong style=”font-size: inherit;”>Course Corrections. Try and get more videos done.

Aha Moments. nothing that stood out this week. Just noticed a slight improvement over last week.

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Big Practice

• Medium practice, plus:
• Practice the Gioco Stretto Defense Form – 5 more reps
• Five Measures Form starting in posta di donna sinistra – 10 reps
• Five Measures Form with thrusts starting in posta breve – 10 reps
• Cutting through longa with mandritto & roverso sottani – 10 reps each
• Thrusting through posta longa from porta di ferro – 20 reps
• Thrusting through posta longa from dente di cinghiara – 20 reps
• Practice thrusting through longa from the finestra guards – 10 reps
• Practice the Unarmed Poste Progression with a focus on striking and throwing – 10 reps
• Didn’t do Longsword Fundimentals II Course.

[Thomas]

Thank you for the feedback!

#4 apricate the clarification.