Stabbity Stab Stab

Hey! That last post was post number 100. Ridiculous, isn't it? Anyway, sorry this is late. Weekends do that to me.

Saturday:

At 8am I turned off my alarm. At 8.12 I scrambled out of bed. At 8.45 I was making my way towards Ball Gym. The start of a long day. But it was fun. A blast really. I didn't fence as well as I should have, but I had fun nonetheless. Here's a quick rundown.

I ran around all morning trying to help get things set up for the tourney. Taping down strips, looking for clipboards and stopwatches, that kind of stuff. I was supposed to help run bout committee but, thankfully, I weaseled my way out of that one. In between bouts I ran around with my voice recorder and camera and tried to be a good little journalist. I think I got a lot of good natural sound. I mostly thank Brian, Jared and Bill for that. Their bouts were hard core on the sounds. Lots of yelling, metallic clangs, and general strip noises. As far as what I'm going to do with the stuff I collected, I have no idea yet. I should figure that out. It's due Tuesday morning after all.

As far as my own personal fencing, I'm mildly annoyed. I didn't fence as well as I could have. I did alright in epee. Beat one of the 3rd place finishers in epee. Lost the rest of my pool bouts, but I managed to get 4-5 on a lot of my bouts. Brian, Jacob McNeal (Summit City fencer), Derek, Ray, and myself. At least I think that was it. I can't recall. Either way, I did ok. Won my first DE against Brittany, only to get my ass whooped by Brian in the next match. I ended up 7th of 10. Mildly annoying, but not as bad as I could have done.

Foil, however, is still annoying me. My pool was fairly simple. Only major competition being Brian. Overall line up was, Rebecca (from Summit City as well), Jessica, Ray, Brian and myself. Again, overall not a difficult pool. And by that I mean, 5-0 bouts against Rebecca and Jessica. I felt kind of bad, but I tried to give them as many chances as I could to do something. Anything. Rebecca did fairly well, even if she didn't actually score any touches. Jessica could have done better, but her mistakes can be easily fixed. We're just gonna have to get her to be more aggressive, she wouldn't attack me for anything, haha.

Ended up fencing a 2-5 against Brian. Not as well as I wanted to do, but not too shabby either. One of these days I'll get him. But Ray. Here's my problem. By all means, I should have beaten him. I'm annoyed at my self for not beating him. He fenced well today, but I should have beaten him. It sounds conceited. It probably is. But I'm not denying that he fenced well today. He fenced very well. It was one of the best bouts we've ever had. But gah. I'll be damned if I shouldn't have won. The match was 2-3 in his favor. We ran out of time. Beaten by the clock. How annoying.

I ended up ranking 5th for DE's. Which put me in a hard match against Jared for my first bout. I think I surprised him a bit. Which was cool. I started off really well, but then, as per usual, it all fell to shit. He figured me out after a few touches, but still. It was a pretty good match, and I think I surprised a lot of people. I hate it when they count me out. So watching their faces and hearing the surprise in their voices as I didn't fail miserably was very much welcome. Told them bastards I could hold my own, haha. Ended up finishing in 5th place for the day (I think. I should have been ranked there, but i'm not entirely sure). Annoyance. Could have gotten higher if not for that bout with Ray. Haha, good job Ray.

Quote of the Day:

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
- Robert Frost