Fencer's Start-Up: A Beginner's Guide to Fencing (Start-Up Sports series) by Doug Werner

Author:Doug Werner [Werner, Doug]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Published: 2010-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

OK, I’m really sweating now (the girl is fresh as a daisy) and slightly dazed. He leaves us after a brief run-through and my young friend (she’s as sweet as can be) has absolutely no problem picking up the coaching mantle. She tells me to keep my torso upright, my elbow straight and a number of other things that I don’t remember. I’m supposed to do a simple drill (change of engagement, extend, lunge and touch) 10 times in a row, but I never make it that far because there’s always something to stop and correct. (I’m at that point where I get one thing right and forget everything else.)

I’m feeling this age difference thing really bad because I must seem like some wheezy old man to her. (She’s 12 years old! Was I ever 12?) I’m thinking about being embarrassed. But before I mentally plunge, she says that I’m doing OK, that I only need to do this and that, and that I look good otherwise. I’m deeply grateful. I’m even more grateful when Nestor has us line up for some final drills without the doggone mask.

After he ends the class, Nestor asks me for some feedback (another example of his professionalism). I’m very happy to tell him that the OTHER guys don’t hold a candle to his class and that I’m ecstatic to find a place where they teach fencing in English.

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