WINTER WONDERLAND 2008 IS IN FULL SWIIIING!! 
thats right… for the past 2 days ive been playing with swords and doing dangerous things for a good 10 hours every day… and its been glorious.
i go back to boulder in 2 days!! wheeee!! it’ll be great to be back in my house with my…”family” again… and just to leave you all with a bit of stage combat humor…
a quote from an instructor whilst teaching smallsword technique “first, i engage her, then i beat her, deceive her, and then come inside her…”
(note… to “engage” blades means to have them touching but not yet attacking or parrying…
to “beat” refers to hitting the blade in order to open the defender up to an attack
to “deceive” refers to a deception of parry, when the attacker’s blade avoids an oncoming parry and either attacks in the same line or chooses a different target without letting up on the offensive)
the “come inside her” part… well… heh… 
i’ll leave that up to your imaginations.
