{"id":8973,"date":"2019-02-04T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2019-02-03T22:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T14:06:07","slug":"state-of-sarah-conserve-energy-and-stab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/04\/state-of-sarah-conserve-energy-and-stab\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Sarah: Conserve energy and stab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hey everyone, yeah this post is me just phoning it in because I know I have two posts lined up about the Japan trip and book reviews from Comic Fiesta. FOR NOW, what have I been up to?<\/p>\n

I signed up at Bastion HEMA<\/a><\/strong> since I did a poll on which I should learn FIRST. It was sword fighting, diving and horse riding.<\/p>\n

Sword fighting won, hurray, I managed to sign up in time too and am now at the time of this post, on lesson 4 of 12 for basics.<\/p>\n

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It’s pretty enjoyable? I am needing way, way much practice on footwork but once I am in the groove, I can step and slash in the correct procedure.<\/p>\n

For those interested, it starts off with warm ups, footwork drills and then the lesson of the day itself including previous lesson’s work to brush up on.<\/p>\n

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This was the seniors showing us how a duel worked in our first trial lesson. IT IS SO VERY EXCITING.<\/p>\n

Also, HEMA stands for historical European martial arts and I’m starting out with a one handed sword, the ‘long knife’ aka langes messer.<\/p>\n

Right now, I know at least the top, middle and from the bottom cuts. I need to do more practice in the actual blocking and parrying next…<\/p>\n

OK THAT’S IT FROM ME SO FAR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone, yeah this post is me just phoning it in because I know I have two posts lined up about the Japan trip and book reviews from Comic Fiesta. FOR NOW, what have I been up to? I signed up at Bastion HEMA since I did a poll on which I should learn FIRST. … Continue reading State of Sarah: Conserve energy and stab<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"SarahBot: What I've been doing lately is conserving energy and stabbing #hema #singapore","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-sarah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-2kJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}