Hot and Cold
I usually recap every tournament I fence in here. However, I've really been avoiding this post all week.
I absolutely hate the fact that I can't fence consistantly. It drives me nuts. Sunday was my first tournament back since the mighty thumb incident. Six weeks without a tournament, and five without practice. I had very low expectations for myself in this tournament anyway, but I just wanted to fence ok for my ability. WRONG!!!!
They needed 1 more warm body in the foil to raise the rating of the tournament, so I got thrown in. Fine. I actually won a bout in my pool, and got points in 2 of the other 3. Yay. I drew one of my foil fencing team mates for my first DE. Ick. He's a great guy, and always a pleasure to fence in any weapon, but quite a bit better than non-foil me. I actually did much better than I had anticipated, losing 15-8 in the bout.
Epee. The weapon I was there for in the first place. I blew it. Completely. I won one bout in my pool. :( I drew my first DE against one of my not-so-nice teammates. The kid has always had a real problem with sportsmanship and attitude. Needless to say, I wasn't at all looking forward to being his cannon fodder. Proving me right, he was a complete jerk, hitting very hard, and being really nasty about everything. He ended my day very early. I suck.
Last night was epee night at practice. I fenced really well. My footwork was quick and light (especially for fencing on such a nasty knee injury.) I fenced a couple of students, and then one of the new epee coaches. I did incredibly well, and paced him the entire time. I ended up losing 15-14. Fine.
Why can't I fence that well all the time? It's depressing.
On another depressing note, I just got a phonecall from the job I interviewed for last week that I wanted so badly. I didn't get it. Everything sucks.
I absolutely hate the fact that I can't fence consistantly. It drives me nuts. Sunday was my first tournament back since the mighty thumb incident. Six weeks without a tournament, and five without practice. I had very low expectations for myself in this tournament anyway, but I just wanted to fence ok for my ability. WRONG!!!!
They needed 1 more warm body in the foil to raise the rating of the tournament, so I got thrown in. Fine. I actually won a bout in my pool, and got points in 2 of the other 3. Yay. I drew one of my foil fencing team mates for my first DE. Ick. He's a great guy, and always a pleasure to fence in any weapon, but quite a bit better than non-foil me. I actually did much better than I had anticipated, losing 15-8 in the bout.
Epee. The weapon I was there for in the first place. I blew it. Completely. I won one bout in my pool. :( I drew my first DE against one of my not-so-nice teammates. The kid has always had a real problem with sportsmanship and attitude. Needless to say, I wasn't at all looking forward to being his cannon fodder. Proving me right, he was a complete jerk, hitting very hard, and being really nasty about everything. He ended my day very early. I suck.
Last night was epee night at practice. I fenced really well. My footwork was quick and light (especially for fencing on such a nasty knee injury.) I fenced a couple of students, and then one of the new epee coaches. I did incredibly well, and paced him the entire time. I ended up losing 15-14. Fine.
Why can't I fence that well all the time? It's depressing.
On another depressing note, I just got a phonecall from the job I interviewed for last week that I wanted so badly. I didn't get it. Everything sucks.
posted by Karen @ 13:41
3 Comments:
At 4/27/2006 2:05 PM,
Anonymous said…
Sorry about the job K... I know all too well how horrible it feels to get turned down after an interview. Have faith though... look at what happened to me! You'll end up on your feet, I promise.
At 4/27/2006 2:48 PM,
Elizabeth McClung said…
Job hunting and interviewing sucks - after a few interviews I take it really really personally and kinda feel like the whore no one wants screaming on the corner "What wrong with me!" - oops, that probably didn't cheer you up.
Sorry to hear about the not so great fencing tournament - nothing is worse that watching yourself doing badly when you know inside that you are a better fencer (a way better fencer) than that.
Sorry you drew the nasty kid too. I'm guessing he didn't back up a lot. It is odd that when facing a "real" epeeist, someone with good form, it can really bring up your game so you both are fencing well and "in the moment" while a bad or irritating epeeist can make me feel like I am in some sort of mud-wrestling compitition.
My dyslexia hit and I first read that you "hate that you can't fence constantly" - wow angry at not being to 24/7 - then I read it a few more times and "consistantly" seemed to make more sense.
At 5/01/2006 1:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
Can I join the ranks of the "why cant I fence like that in comps"? Melbourne was an absolute disaster.....
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