Tuesday February 13th 2018 I’m feeling so lazy of late. Part of this is the finger, which just isn’t right. I keep soaking it, and the scabs are still falling away to reveal that it’s attached at an angle. This means round the back there’s a gap. It’s painful… best described as pins and needles, [...]
Sunday 31st December 2017 2017 was a funny old year. It was my Year of the Offensive … a year for me to push myself and claim the rewards for my hard work. As I said back then “it’s going to be a year where I happen to it rather than it happens to me”. [...]
Sunday 5th November 2017 Today was the last day in Sweden as we return home to the UK. It’s been an amazing trip and I’ve come away really proud of myself and my accomplishments. Of course, the attention now turns to the year ahead and the work I need to do. I’ve pretty much decided [...]
Saturday 4th November 2017 Today I rewarded myself for all my hard work with a new sword. I’m still in a bit of shock over my result yesterday. I keep thinking back to what my fencing was like just a year ago and marvelling at the progress. I keep thinking about it and finding myself [...]
Friday 3rd November 2017 If you asked a load of fencers what the defacto world championship for swordfighting was, the vast majority would point to Swordfish. Held each year in Gothenburg, the fact that it attracts so much of the world’s best talent means that it’s the competition everyone wants to win. I first went [...]
Thursday 2nd November 2017 I normally don’t sleep before flights. I always worry that I’ll somehow oversleep and then miss my flight. As a result I will normally stay up the night before I travel, constantly checking my luggage and worrying about leaving some item or other. But I’ve been acutely aware of how much [...]
Saturday 21st October 2017 Sometimes you just have to put in the work. After Wednesday left me feeling like the worst fencer ever, I knew I needed to put a load of effort in before my competition next week. I mean, I find the feedback really, really useful, but it’s also been a little demoralising [...]
Monday 16th October 2017 Today I came home from Romania. I couldn’t sleep. Maybe it was dehydration from the alcohol or maybe it was the fact that I was sad to bereturning home. We had to be up and out at 5:30am so when I woke around 4:30am I found myself getting up to repack [...]
Sunday 15th October 2017 Today was my last full day in Romania. In truth this weekend has been everything I could possibly want – an amazingly relaxed and chilled weekend that takes my mind away from a load of personal crap going on back in the UK Today had originally been intended to be our [...]
Saturday 14th October 2017 After yesterday’s migraine, I woke up feeling a lot better today. Rather than dwell on things, I simply focused on the event at hand. I know tournaments. I know that tension and excitement that precedes them as fighters ready themselves to be tested against each other. Except today, I wasn’t fighting, [...]
