[Ansteorra-rapier] New Student Inundation...

[gtaylor]

You had Vinnie Bradford for an instructor?  :)
She is cool.  She runs PAC (Palo Alto College) fencing here in San Antonio, now.

I did not drill much at all during my first 4+ years of fencing.  I felt like a
clod whenever any "backyard" folk would teach them at an AoR.  However, in the
months before I got a WS, I decided that I needed to improve a good number of
things about my fencing and teaching, and went to PAC for a few months, to learn
drills and see how modern fencing is taught.  If my arm had stood up to doing
both types of fencing, I'd probably still be going.  Vinnie still has coaches
colleges, at which she'll being in pros, who also knew other nifty fencing
tricks....ask Don Piet about Alex Beguinet's (Duke Fencing Coach...very cool guy
and non-hostile to SCA) disarming moves.

I find that drills are good when you have a large group of people to teach.
Some people need to drill to learn.  Also...I feel it's a really good way for me
at this point to improve footwork...something that most of us still need work
on...

Isobel

Chiara wrote:

> I am curious. How many scarves did drills before they were cadets?
>
> My husband and I competed in collegiate fencing. We drilled everyday, 2
> hours minimum. I kinda really looked forward to it but my husband (we were
> not dating yet, we met after we both stopped competing) hated it. The
> difference was our teachers. I had Vinnie, he had Moreua. Vinnie was very
> adventurous, she would bring in old masters from everywhere for a weekend of
> training and the school would pay for it. It was great. His did not.
>
> The best drills we did were so grueling that the "B" rated fencers were more
> sore than ever in their lives. All of them hated drills but these were just
> so challenging they had to admit that they loved them.
>
> I still have my notes if anyone is interested in these drills. I am more
> than willing to pass them along since I will have to wait at least another
> year before our 4 year old will be physically ready to do some of them. Our
> 6 year old has no interest in fencing, yet. :)
>
> Sincerely,
> Franchesca Havas
> McKinney, Texas
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "gtaylor" <gtaylor at lonestar.jpl.utsa.edu>
> To: <ansteorra-rapier at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:20 PM
> Subject: [Ansteorra-rapier] New Student Inundation...
>
> > When you have lots of new students, one thing that you can do is switch to
> teaching
> > them more like modern fencing schools (and many other SCA folk, around the
> country)
> > presently do.  In BJ, we traditionally just fight, and learn when
> fighting.  When you
> > are outnumbered, however, you can find drills for particular skills, pair
> up your new
> > folk, show them how to do the drill, and let them practice that drill with
> one
> > another, under your roving supervision.  This works with footwork, parry
> and attack
> > drills pretty well.  If you don't know drills, get a book on them...or bug
> some of us
> > who happen to have crashed modern fencing classes for the very purpose of
> gathering
> > drills and learning how to teach better...
> >
> > Isobel
> >
>
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