Stick day

So fight practice tonight!
My strategy for tonight is simple. Concentrate on laying shots good, clean, crisp and precise. Concentrate on power generation. Focus on body movements and not worry to much about speed for now. Tonight I dissect my shots and I correct what ever is not working. One drill that really helped me a few months back is the one where one fighter makes a shot and stops, the other one blocks and lays a shot and stops, the first fighter blocks and lays a shot and so on. It forces me to slow my mind a bit and see openings and it also teaches me what my body can do or not. And eventually, the mind stops and you start blocking and laying shots without thinking about it. I haven't done that drill in a long long while. I have a hard time doing slow warm ups, my head sees openings and I speed up and it fucks up the drill. That drill really forces me to calm down and focus.
So we'll see how that goes.


I've pre-registered for Ursulmas. I've been looking forward to this tourney since I left the site. Ursulmas last year was a huge eye opener for me. It's the first time I've fought with other people than those that I practice with at home. I had the snot beated out of me and my ass handed to me every single time I stepped in the eric. But each time I got out, my opponents taught me something, they told me what I did wrong, what I should have done and what I did right.
I've met other female fighters too and we spoke a lot on what was different about the way we think and the way we fight compared to men. What really really surprised me is that I got along just fine with them and some of them I still have contact with and we meet in the erics from time to time. I usually don't get along with other girls. I never understood why, it's almost animalistic, I simply just don't get along with other women, especially not women that just beat the shit out of me. Well Ursulmas changed that. I had the same connection with them than I had with the male fighters and my relationship with women changed since then. Don't get me wrong, there's still some females that I can't stand, but I don't think that it's because they are females, it's because they are bitches.

Last year, I only knew a handful of people there, those from the barony who went. I pretty much kept to myself. I was very shy. A lot of people tried to talked to me but I was hesitant and afraid to be judged. When I went back to the hall I curled up on my sleeping bag and read or slept, avoiding people.
This year I want to meet people, I want to share, I want to talk, I want to hangout.



Let's see how this practice goes!