Characteristics of Emotional Intelligence (with a sword)
As you’ve probably determined, emotional intelligence can be a key to success in your life – especially in your career (with a sword).
Fencing Mentality
What is Emotional Intelligence (with a sword)?
Each one of us must develop the mature emotional intelligence skills required to better understand, empathize and negotiate with other people — particularly as the community has become more global. Otherwise, success will elude us in our lives and fencing careers.
There’s more than one way to be “smart” with a sword
Understanding ourselves better is the best foundation for being able to discover and develop our potential with a sword.
One of the Most Dangerous Words
I find it fascinating that a little reflection and introspection can snowball into serious pondering. Subjects that provoke thoughts can turn into a rabbit-hole of new ideas and self-discovery.
Hard Work, Drive, & Talent
Three common principles that can influence your progress as a fencer are hard work, drive, and talent.
Melee: A Different Kind of Fencing
Not many people realize that Melee and Dueling require very different skills, mindsets, and attitudes. The goal is be both a Duelist and a Melee-ist…Skirmisher…Soldier… I dunno.
The Benefits of Getting Beat
Sometimes, a loss can be more beneficial than a win. We just have to be willing to learn from it.
Anchoring Yourself to the Zone
Nearly every person has experienced being in “the zone,” that place we reach in our minds when our best fencing happens seamlessly.
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.
The Power of 20 Minutes
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take
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.