June 11, 2010

I'm working on two new articles, the first is a look at "flow" in fencing. Since my return to competition, I've discovered that my mental game is significantly stronger than it was when I was fencing twenty years ago. I'm not fencing much better, mind you (twenty years away from lessons and training has that impact) but I am fencing much "tougher". I attribute much of this change to the mental work I've done in the last twenty years of focusing on processes (rather than outcomes) and work in teaching my own students how to fence competitions.

The other article I'm working on is a complete redo of my articles on Tempo. After re-reading a lot of source material, and re-examining my own writings from ten or fifteen years ago (when my article on tempo on this web site was first drafted) I've come to the conclusion that my original examination of tempo was far too complicated in some ways and not complicated enough in others.

I'm struggling through this re-write, however. This is probably an expected course of things, since no one, not even Zbignew Czajkowski seems to be able to come to an agreement on what exactly "tempo" should stand for.

May 30, 2010

I haven't been able to spend much time on this blog in the last year. I've been busy with a number of other projects that have kept me away from any new articles. I have been doing a survey of web hosting possibilities. I need to up grade some of the error handling for this site, begin to phase out the duplicate site on my old Earthlink account, and in general do some housekeeping that is long over due.

I also have fixed the link to my blog at www.fencing.net. About the time I had sent an email out to all of my students about my blog, Craig brought down the blog feature in his site to upgrade the software. I'm considering replicating my blog on this web site, and I'm looking into how difficult that will be, and if I can keep the "look and feel" of the rest of the site on the blog.

August 6, 2009

I've finally had some time since Nationals to load Dave Littell's articles onto the site. I would urge anyone who likes these to visit Dave's site (url below), full of good fencing information.

June 28, 2009

The new article on dealing with counter-attackers in foil is up on the site. I'm still working on David's articles.

I have changed some of the verbage in Lies, Damn Lies, and Feints to make it a little clearer to read. I'm still looking for a link to the study I remember reading concerning the physiology of swinging at a baseball pitch.

June 21, 2009

I am busy reformatting Coach Dave Littell's articles on the Hungarian Foil methodology and his short monograph on his lessons with Victor Bukov. Hopefully these will go up on the website in the next two weeks, after he reviews the formatting and approaves. I would still refer everyone to Dave Littell's excellent web site at  http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeegyz6/index.html, but I wanted to "mirror" them on my own site, to ensure that they get the distribution they deserve.

I go through all of the articles I have written on a regular basis, checking for correct spelling (a constant challenge for me), grammar, and awkward phrasing. IN addition, as I learn new things, or clarify concepts, I'll edit articles to reflect this. On the basis of an email exchange, and re-reading my article on feint attacks, I am cleaning up Lies, Damn Lies, and Feints, to make it read more clearly.