My Swordfit Bootcamp Experience - Day 2

Hello Everyone,

So, yesterday was my second day of May bootcamp. (I forgot to mention last time, but it happens three times a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.) My apologies for the lateness of this post; I’m still getting the hang of this whole blogging process -this is my first blog ever! And what a good experience it is.

We started with a warm-up of kicks, running and -ahem- burpees. I “ahem” the burpees because these are doled out to everyone as penalty for being late: 2 for each minute after 7am. You don’t see me in the picture because I sneakily made my way to the bathroom at this time... but don’t worry, righteous readers! I didn’t get away with it. No, I was not that fortunate. As soon as I got back, Mane had me doing 20 of them on my own while the others got to do the fun stuff with swords. I hope I learned my lesson. 🙂

In the clip below, you can see our warm up in addition to sword drills. Yesterday’s theme being circles, there were lots of turns added between cuts- the one that Mane is demonstrating near the middle of the video is the “windmill”. Cadence of one, two, one two three. With cutting, it went:

One- step and fendente cut
Two- step and fendente cut other side
One, two, three- turn 360 degrees while making a sottano cut
Then repeat on the other side.

Our “circuit” section in the second video was a playful game of "roll the die". Each of us took turns rolling, and each number corresponded with a certain exercise in the theme of circles- from spinning rope above our heads (you can see me in the front on this one), to doing flourishes with a staff, to circular cuts with our longsword, to... drumroll, please... rolling on the ground!

This has been fun, my friends. I hope you enjoyed.

Arte, Ardore, Onore,

Sophia