Wednesday night training

Well... finally got in armour Wednesday night at the RH hall and had a hit... made sure I had all my armour before I left home . :)

Was 5 of us in armour, Gabs, Lucas, Paul Adams, Magnus and myself. Gabs spent the night doing some newbie training for 4 people (many thanks for that again) so that left the 4 of us to have a play.

Had a great play with Paul to start with, he is so quick and reminded me that I have been too long out of armour as I had forgotten a lot of the moves and spent too much time thinking. Got a few nice shots in on him though, some he did not expect like the J shot (Fake to the right side of the head (my right) bring it down in a J towards his left leg, then thrust under the shield, got him just above the box. We had quite a few good long passes when I mainly went into defense mode.

Second was Lucas. I was interested to watch him really stand off against me. He took quite a while to even take a step in, and as soon as he started moving all I had to do was twitch and he would step back. He fell for the J as well and also the double tap a few times. Was just starting to really have fun with him when as we were locked up I took a step to my right to make him pass me but our legs tangled at the same time I stepped on uneven ground and down I went. Normally I can fall quite well, but somehow I landed with my head back so taht took the entire weight of the fall. Went black for a second or two until I heard Gabs calling if I was ok. Eventually got back up and lay down on the side for a while... not a great thing to happen a week after being off work with Vertigo. Ended up de-armouring as I was really getting quite dizzy. Dissapointed but still happy with the night.

So all in all I was happy with my first fight back. Thinking about it later on the way home, I realised that I was being a lot more aggressive with my fighting and doing more attacking rather than reacting to their movements. I guess because both Paul and Lucas are fairly aggressive fighters I was being the same back to them? Also when I was fighting Lucas and we were doing up close fighting, when I had enough i found myself shoving him back hard and throwing shots as I stepped back as well. This is something I don't usually do, but did several times last night. It worked as it got some space between us, and also landed a few nice blows as well.

Well... let's see how we go next time :)