After going to my first SCA event and watching the rapier matches, I have decided that I want to wield sharp pointy objects in a orderly and graceful sorta way sooooo....I went to my first rapier practice this week! (we are learning Capo Ferro's style) Man, they sure do make it look easy!! Just learning the proper stance is rough! The old knees don't want to bend the way they should and the old hips have a mind of their own....You get so use to moving one way that when you have to move in another way that doesn't seem "natural" you become very concious of your body. I have to "learn" to bend at the waist, sounds simple but we bend at our hips! I have to also learn to get my knees to bend directly over my feet, again sounds simple enough but.....And of course we are given strength training excercises, I need to try to work those into my everyday doings. I was also given a lean and lunge excercise to work on...this one I can either practice with Edmund (yup, he went with me) or one of the women at work who started 2 weeks ago. Okay off to finish the laundry so that I can get my 20 minutes of practice in and then I have to get online to get some more idea for my next set of garb....but that is another story!