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[rm]

Okay, the English Country Dancing is definitely much more my thing than contra. I will definitely go again, albeit not constantly. I think what I really need to do is start going to Scottish on Thursdays (since soon there will be fencing on Fridays). This is all a little mad. I suppose I'm becoming addicted to exercise, eventhough I feel like part of me is going "stop! for the love of all things you need a break!" while half of me is like, "every day, bitch, are you serious about this or not?" Yikes.

I have also determined that I like pop music. That is, big classical symphonies don't do much for me, but give me a dance tune or a waltz on some fiddles and I'm perfectly happy.

I'm still shocked I'm not more sore than I am, but how in the hell am I going to fence tomorrow?

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[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay, yeah. there's stuff in fencing that near killed me at the beginning that I don't even notice anymore. Fencing is a little maddening in terms of how to approach it because I have both a lot of strength to develop, which demands rest, and a lot of motions to grasp, which for me, as someone who danced, really demands a bit of every day.

[roy-batty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hear ya. It's been explained to me, and I buy into it, that is one of the main reasons we (at least my school) puts such an emphasis on conditioning in the Martial Arts. Aside from issues of fatigue during a fight, pain endurance, &c., there is the simple fact that in order to get good at what we do we need a lot of repetitions, and we need to be well conditioned to actually be able to do the required reps.