
Tips and Tricks for your Fencing Toolbox
En Garde is taking the opening position for action.

Journal entry on psyching yourself up/out
There’s power in physically telling yourself to stop thinking something.

Balance and Imbalance in a Fight
This article will go over how to stay in the balance and how to keep the advantage during imbalances of a fight.

Your Fencing Symbol: Does it have a meaning?
Not everyone has a symbol to represent themselves, and that’s okay! For some, the symbol can be something you love, for others it has a deep meaning; and in the case of mine it’s both.

Think Before You Leap
Sometimes, it’s beneficial to take a step back and think before you leap into the fray.

How to Analyze a Fight
Learning to analyze a fight is a crucial skill for every fencer. We can all benefit from breaking a fight down into smaller, more manageable pieces.

What Works
Fencing can frustrate us, it can infuriate us, it can confound us and inspire us. There is always more to learn, and I love it!

Activities That Can Help Get You Out of a Slump
We’ve all been there. We fall into a slump in our fencing and we don’t know how to get out of it or how to push our fencing skill forward. Luckily, slumps are just temporary challenges we can work through.

Walk Through 100 Spider Webs
If I asked you to walk through one hundred spider webs, would you do it? What if I asked you to shoot one hundred arrows or draw one hundred sketches of Damian? How would you feel the first time compared to the last?
This week’s Woodland Watch is all about confidence and the mental, physical, and emotional conditioning needed to obtain it.

Creating a Mind Map
In this weeks Woodland Watch, I want to share a helpful technique to organize your thoughts and is a great exercise for your fencing journal. It’s called Mind Mapping.

Let’s Talk About Fencing
A very simple method of training and learning more about fencing is often overlooked: talking. When we talk about fencing we share and learn together. We should be doing it more.

My Study into the Four Levels of Importance
The Four Levels of Importance have deep meanings, they are part of the core of our beliefs. They govern over us in a very real way.