Victory!

Guten Tag readers!

Today I post of victory in a tourney! Okay so it was a demo event and a team tourney and there were only a few fighters and my partner (Dino D'Malta) did the lions share of the killing but it still counts :)

Looks like endless pell work can be useful. According to my beloved who attentively watched all of my fighting, I was embodying the "fire" persona. For those not familiar with the theory some people describe fighting styles in terms of the four elements (wind, water, fire, earth). Fire is the aggressive, attacking persona. I guess all that pell work made the blows come fairly instinctively and since I haven't trained much else, I relied on a flurry of blows to see me through.

It's remarkably effective against the less experienced fighters because it is really hard to work on a strategy when  someone's trying to take your head off! Of course against the good fighters it doesn't work so well as they effortlessly defend against the flurry and find a gap in your defence. Which of course you aren't focusing on because you're trying to kill them!

So time to focus on defence. Hard to do against a pell I suspect so I might need to volunteer as a human tent peg at training again so that through merciless beatings I might learn to keep my guard up.

But all that aside it was a really awesome day simply because I didn't break and I didn't lose all my fights. Next step, fight regularly without snapping like a twig! Oh, and painting my shield so I don't again look like a member of the legion of the unpainted.


Bechtold (the chuffed).