Killing time, with broken rhyme
Why does it skip the line
Aching bones, distant tones
We are as pain define
So it goes, with thrusts and blows
Words form the couplet
With each swing, this blade will sing
Not one damn regret

My Cyrano - This feeling

CYRANO

This feeling that invades me, total and joyous, terrible and jealous. It is truly love, the sad rages, the constant thoughts. And yet it is not selfish. For your happiness I would give my own life gladly, even if you must never know. If it could be that sometimes where I was, no matter how far, I could hear your laughter born of my sacrifice. I fear nothing but your loss. Do you realize? Do you perceive this soul in a shadow? A soul to you the candle that gives me warmth in the chilling darkness and light to see. Without you I am lost forever. This night, this glorious night, is too perfect. It only means for me to die now, with the sight of you trembling like a leaf through branches of jasmine. I love, greater than anyone, I hold the sun in my heart for you, my half soul. You illuminate me, those eyes a beacon to shore. You are my life and in those eyes. I surpass all things, in those eyes love itself could not love as much as I.

Feints and Drills

FEINTS and DRILLS
A feint is a false strike or thrust to one zone then rapidly changing to strike or thrust at another zone.

Left Hip Feint - Feint at LH, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones
Right Hip Feint - Feint at RH, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones
Left Shoulder Feint - Feint at LS, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones
Right Shoulder Feint - Feint at RS, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones
Head Feint - Feint at H, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones
Groin Feint - Feint at G, then strike each of the remaining 5 zones

Now do it with thrusts
Now strike then thrust
Now thrust then strike

Now work the INTERIOR,
Starting with the assigned Feint thrust/strike go to
collarbone , ribs, eyes, throat, wrists, knees

DRILLS - STANDARD DRILLS

1. Exchange Drill – Breaking a set pattern between opponents
2. Wraparound Drill – Simply Put this is the drill where you strike at the opposite area your opponent strikes – Opponent strikes LS you strike RS, Opponent strikes H you strike Groin.
3. Mirror – This drill is similar to the wraparound drill – Opponent strikes at LS, you strike at the Opponents RH,
You strike at the opponents LH they strike at your LS.
4. Reversing – Doing the specific moves reverse of the normal pattern
5. Shadowing – Doing the established pattern against an opponent while not making contact.
6. Singularity - two fighters are only allowed a specific targeted area,say hips or shoulders, the purpose of the drill is to see how many
ways with strikes, thrusts and cuts you can attack that particular
area.

7. One to One – Strike at the same zone the attacker struck at previously.
8. Sensitivity Drill – Light contact with opponents blade going with the flow of the push and pull.
RETALIATION – DRILLS
Variations on Groin, Head, Eye drill
The old standby drill,
Choose a person to engage the attack, They are the Attacker, The defender , parries the attackers strike and retaliates.
You eventually develop a nice flow with it.
Drill 9
Attacker – Strikes at Groin
Defender – now strikes at opponents Head
Attacker – Strikes at opponents Eye
Then switch it.
Defender – strikes at opponents Groin
Attacker – now strikes at opponents Head
Defender – strikes at opponents Eye


Drill 10

Attacker - Left Temple,
Defender - Right Floating Rib
Attacker - Right Temple,
Defender - Left Floating Rib

Then switch it.

Defender - Left Temple,
Attacker - Right Floating Rib
Defender - Right Temple,
Attacker - Left Floating Rib

Drill 11

Attacker -Left Inside Kneecap,
Defender - Right Collar Bone
Attacker -Right Inside Kneecap,
Defender - Left Collar Bone

The switch it

Drill 12

Attacker - Left Inside Wrist,
Defender - Head,
Attacker – Right Inside Wrist,
Defender – Groin
Then switch it.

Drill 13

Attacker -Left Femoral Artery,
Defender - Right Temple,
Attacker - Left Collar Bone
Defender - Right Femoral Artery,
Attacker - Left Temple,
Defender - Right Collar Bone
The switch it
3 S’s drill.

Stab – Slash – Strike


Stab – Thrust – any type

Slash – Eyes, Ribs, Throat, Knees, Wrists or X cut (High or Low or Medium) Dobletes or Dobladas.

Strike - Strike – any type

This is a quick combo drill. The instructor chooses and demonstrates.
For example: The instructor chooses the following

Stab thrust to sternum, Slash mid X cut, Strike to head.

STAB! – class thrusts to sternum
SLASH!! – class does a mid X cut
STRIKE !!!- class does a strike to head.
The is a simple drill, and can be done with partners. In exchanges of without. It can also be mixed up. By changing the order of the commands.
SLASH, STRIKE, STAB for instance or STAB, SLASH, STAB