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.
Sometimes, it’s beneficial to take a step back and think before you leap into the fray.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Each fighter carries with him or herself a Rose all unique with their own set of virtues and traits. When you look at a rose, what does it mean to you? The symbolism of your rose should always guide your actions, both on and off the field.
“If you wish to succeed you must brave the risk of failure.” Garry Kasparov, Chess Grandmaster
Mentality in fencing is a key skill to learn and it’s a skill that comes with time and practice.
In each of us there is a mind we use for all our waking deeds. But there is another mind as well, a sleeping mind. It is so powerful that the sleeping mind can accomplish in one second what the waking mind can’t comprehend until afterwards.
Do you know what you are good at and where your strengths lie? We should all focus on our strengths instead of our weaknesses and seek to help others find their strengths.