...Or not.

So I made my debut in foil. It actually didn't go nearly as bad as I thought. My goal was to try to get at least one point in every pool bout. My results: 1-5, 1-5, 2-5, 5-3, 5-2. I won 2 bouts!!!! OMG it was totally unexpected! DE's are up, and I win my first one. (We only had 12 people, so it wasn't all that exciting.) My next DE is against one of the kids that beat me in the pool. Ugh. Anyway, I had a sort of light bulb go off in my head, and I realized that a lot of the things that work for me in saber, also work in foil! Amazing. Anyway, I actually gave the kid a run for his money, and lost that bout 15-11. Oh well. It was kinda fun, but I don't think you'll ever find me "training" in foil.

Epee was dreadful. I started out fencing it like foil, which was getting me nowhere. Apparently, my brain doesn't switch weapons in the same day very easily. So I went 3-2. Fair. Who is my DE against? The same guy who beat me 5-1 in my second pool bout, in which I was incredibly frustrated. Great. So I go to fence him, and I actually stay with him, and figure out a few tricks that work. We get into the thrid period, and the score is 9-6 I think, with me winning. I had a three point lead, and ended up losing 15-14. I hate that about myself. I can never close the deal in a tough bout when it counts. Dreadful.

Sunday I ran the saber tournament. Awwww hell. I had 33 fencers show up (for an E and under tournament!), and we tried to run it as fast as humanly possible. Unfortunately, some of the parents don't have a patient bone in their body. We started fencing about 12:30, and the last bout got done at 5:30. I don't think that's bad, being that we had 33 fencers and 3 strips.

Anyway, my feet hurt.