Summer Nationals: Day Four

Day four was spent fencing in the Div 3 Men's epee. I started my warm up, but never really finished it. I was worried about the 80 percent cut off...which i didnt make. I was not fencing like I normally fence...I dont know where my head was. I can certainly say that im not at all imperessed with how i fenced, but I am ok that i placed 108th out of 133. I could have done much better, but their is always next year.

Summer Nationals: Day Three

Day three was spent watching foil and waiting for some blades to be repaired....for four hours!
I was not at all impressed with the people who worked on the blades...the work was good, but i could have fixed it in twenty minuets if i had known what the problem was.
Ugh! O well.

Summer Nationals: Day Two

Thursday we fenced the Junior Team Men's Epee event...we lost by an incredible margin 45-22. We fenced a team from Colorado they were good fencers, but on any other day I could have beaten the snot out of them. Alot of things went wrong my focus was off, I was rushing, I wasn't using my fingers, my lunge was not at all good...ugh! the list just goes on and on...either way i spent the rest of the day hanging out with some friends which was a good thing. Our team came in 21st out of 26 other teams...not to bad.

Summer Nationals: Day One

Today is the first day of the Summer National Championships for me. We got into Grapevine about 2:30 pm or so and I stayed at the venue until 5:30 pm, taking lessons and getting ready for tomorrows team event. We had a little trouble checking in, but it was solved soon thereafter. All is well for the first day here at the summer nationals and hopefully all will be well tomorrow.

"D"

Finally I have gone beyond the realm of the unrated and won first place in a D1 mixed epee. I am soooo happy!!!! I earned my "D" rating!!!!

I went completely undefeated in the pools, Came out of the pools in 1st place and fenced four very hard bouts. Yes I got a cheap tacky trophy that was not plastic, to my surprise.

Summer Nationals

It has been one year and roughly three months since I started fencing, and now I am going all the way to Summer Nationals YAY!!!!!!! I am very pleased with the way that I have been fencing ever since December i have been fencing three times better then before. This summer will be wrapped up in fencing, between a two week camp with Coach B, a french coach who sometimes comes to our club, and the actual SN it will take most of the summer.

The only events that I qualified in were Men's Div III(D and Under) Epee, Junior Men's Team Saber, and Junior Men's Team Epee.

I think my career as an Olympian is staring to bud...2012 here I come.

Caffeine

Caffeine as every athlete knows is not a good thing for us.
It makes our muscles cramp when we need them most and it also dehydrates you quickly.
Therefore, I have sworn off caffeine.

It is driving me crazy. I haven't ever liked the taste of sprite, and I am not a big fan of lemonade; but that is all restaurants have that doesn't have caffeine in them.
The one good thing is I have found decaffeinated tea, so I don't have to give up sweet tea. YAY!!!!!.