I completely failed at "taking it easy" yesterday. My ankle is super messed up this morning, but from past experience it will be okay tomorrow. Ah well. Post-K&Q Podiatrist Appointment will totally be a thing, because my general internal medicine doctor is useless for my ankle and has encouraged me to "just wait and see if it gets better" for more than a year at this point.
I'm pretty anxious about King's and Queen's Rapier Champions tomorrow. My fencing has been pretty on-point, but I still feel like there are things I need to work on before my game will be "good enough". I've always felt that since starting fencing though, so I guess that's not a bad sign.
It's scary coming into this event. I don't have a particular "thing" that I plan to use and overuse. Sure, I've got my old-style Outside Line Tricks, and my new-style Sword Magic, and I've got my distance/measure/posting tricks. But I don't really feel as though any particular one of them is going to carry me through the tournament. I don't have A Plan, because people have adjusted to all of the individual games that I play to the point that I can't win with them alone.
It's really scary coming into this event. The lead-up to this event has been super intense. This is the first K&Q that a lot of my semi-contemporaries plan to go for it for real. Along with so many skilled OGRs and MoDs going for it. I'm actually more stressed about this than I was about Champs last year or the year before.
The one thing I need to remember is to have resolve. All the skill in the world doesn't matter if I don't have the emotional fortitude to make correct choices in the tournament. I need to remember to do the things I need to do in order to make all of the noise and static at the back of my head go quiet.
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