Iron Bog 12/16

I had not been in armor since Crown, which was a six week layoff. It was mostly for deer season.

There were five fighters at Iron Bog: myself, Sterling, Gui, Bran, and Mike. Good practice--two knights and three OTCs. Ron was there for a while, teaching. He says I'm throwing too many wasted shots.

Gui beat me 3 times out of 4, and really rocked me once. All of his wins on me were his short punch, once while I was on my knees. I was trying only one thing--to kill him with an off side thumb lead scorpion, mostly because it's a shot *he's* trying to learn right now. I've tried it a few times, but can't quite get the angle correct. The only people I know who do it well are Ionis and Duke Anton from Atlantia. I never did land it, though in our last fight I started to throw it, turned it into a for-edge shot, and it worked. My fights with Sterling were rough, as usual, but I won 4 of 5. Once I got him with one of Ron's shots--moving my hand in front of my face, as though to throw an off side, then hitting him in the head. It's more subtle than the way I've thrown it in the past. I felt best against Elglin. I was able to control the fight with snaps to the head and use that to set up everything else.

No video.

I'm not going to Birka at this point, because it's my birthday weekend, and Hanna got us show tickets. My next time in armor will be at Western 12th Night.