Pre-Review Review

Short little post about specifics for what I want to work on, fencing tonight.

Since my shoulder is still a barely-perceptible bit unhappy, I'm going to continue avoiding fighting Spanish for another week or two. This means that this week, I get to work on my Italianesque game more!

The past few practices, I've focused on a few things:

-Thrusting through either the hilt, the middle, or in complete absence of their sword, and alternating sides.
-Forward / Middle / Back counter-guards to deal with my opponent's guards, with Old Lupold Guard thrown in there when my opponent successfully counterguards against Forward without creating the opening that would be exploitable by Back.
-Creating openings and making them larger.
-Acting at the exact correct time and not *before*, which leads to slowness and being parried, or *after*, which leads to being barred out of my attack.

Moving forward, I need to maintain those things while working on some selection of the following few things:

-Practicing entering and maintaining the "no-mind" state, in which verbal thought doesn't exist. Only the awareness of how things are "right now", and what to do moving forward.
-If someone resets for the next bout inside of my measure, attacking before they're fully in-guard, rather than allowing them to gain illegitimate advantage by closing measure before the bout even begins.
-Economy of motion, when applicable.
-Continuing to figure out which things can and which things cannot be applied from Destreza into my Italianesque game, and why. (Sword length, etc.)