foot work nr.157.. and Im back

Long time since I wrote something here. Many reasons, and some are just excuse.. fuck excuse.
Im still working, still trying develop my practice method.
My last video became very poppular so I decide that maybe putting some videos with examples of my work can give inspirations to other coaches.

I think is very important to try find methods which help develop many skills. and are quite funny..

no one likes 3 minutes foot works...
why we do 3 minutes food works ?
there is no such a moment in fencing match like 3 minutes foot work.
no one like it, and just few work very good during this excercise

So here you can find an example how to make foot work litle less boring.

This was a first round and as you see few fencers didnt work as they should, but after few rounds when you tried all exercises and you remember them, its time to work really hard..
and believe me 20 rounds.. its not easy peasy..

motivation

Long brake since last time,
not because I dont want to write,
not because I have nothing to write about,
but my days are always about priority,
blogg is not the highest priority right now, I need to do my work first, quite a lot of work...

but it looks like I have few days "break" now,
yeap break, 7 days before I will start training camp as a firts step of preparation for next season,
season nr. 8 in my coaching carrier..
as usually few goals, goals on the way to reach my dreams..

do you know what is a difference between goals and dreams?
for me its quite easy..
difference between dream and goal, is just that goal has a deadline!

I have few deadlines in this season,
maybe its not so humble to tell everybody what are you gonna do,
but I think this is some kind of currage and ambition to do it.
its always how bad you want it, its about how hard you work for it, and how good prepare you will be when momment "its all about it" comes.

I keep some statistics, actually a lot of statistics,
competitions, practices, victories, defeats, and medals..
Its possible that I will write a book about it some day...

Maybe its little easier to get medals in Sweden, hard to compare for sure,
but my students won already 93 medals on Swedish Championships, (U13,U15,U17,U20 and seniors)
so first goal for new season is quite simple... I want to finish season 2013-2014 with 100 medals in my pocket!
7 left.. maybe not many, maybe quite easy.. but we will see,
When I count we got (average) 9 individuall medals during season..
sometimes even 13.. but sometimes just 4.
Im motivated to do it, work for it, so I just need to find fencers who are ready to do it too,
Fencers who want it really bad...
"challenge accepted"

I "didnt work" last 3 weeks but I havent holidays last 3 weeks
I think that fencing coaches have no such a thing like holidays
there is always something to do,
read, watch, think, plan
I had few days traveling, but my mind was busy.
to find new ideas...
to find motivation...
its not that I have no motivation.. I have a lot of motivation,
but its important to find new one, new goals, new things to believe,
I try dont forget about old goals, those who are still in progress,
but every year, every month I try to find something new, new possibilities, new oportunities

I found time to work my self, became frustrated how bad I became in few things I was quite good some time ago
so there is another goal.. work myself atleast 6h per week, make come back, be fit again,
as a very busy fencing coach and family guy.. it will be not easy (F..g not easy)

I found time to read a lot.. books, articles,
some of them not first time, and what is quite interesting I found new things in those words, new sense, maybe this is a matter of expierence, better knowedgle.. maybe I understand things better now,
so another goal is that I need (yes, not should, I need) read more,

Seems like I try do a lot off things to avoid this quite poppular quote:

"If you always do,
what you always done,
you will always get
what you always got"

So make changes, find new motivation,
new season is coming

Lessons

Its no doubt that individuall lesson in fencing is the most effective way to practice and learn fencing.
Its no doubt that fencing lesson is uniqe.. there is not so many sports that coach need to be "so close" to his students, maybe boxing, maybe tenis...
Please remember that individuall lesson in fencing can have many purpose, goals.
It can be best way to teach you new things,
It can be best way to practice this you already know and can
It can be best way to prepare you (warm upp) before match
...
It can be best way to improwe that you need to work harder
It can be best way to show you that you already can fencing too,

There are som standards, habbits, and maybe even "old" rules when you do lesson,
but I think there is no such a think as bed lesson.. offcourse lesson can be ineffective, or even wrong..
but is not bed lesson, everytime you have possibility to practice you learn something new, about yourself, about your fencing,

Sometimes you dont like it,
Sometimes you love it,

So here comes few clips with lessons

Christoffer Ejemyr lesson with Tomasz Goral

Yuki Ota lesson with Oleg Matcheythuk (starts att 14 min)

Marco Vaninni lesson with Antonio Di Ciolo

Valentina Vezzali lesson with G. Tomassini

Husayn Rosowsky lesson with Adam Blight

Andrea Baldini lesson with Paolo Paoletti

Simone Vanni lesson with Paolo Paoletti

Alesandro Puccini lesson with Antonio Di Ciolo

Andrea Cassara lesson with Massimo Omeri

Richard Kruse lesson with Ziemowit Wojciechowski

and offcourse you can find much more if you like...

Share passion

Its quite fun to share passion..
as a friend,
as a parent,
as a Godfahter too,

My Godson started fencing 2 years ago, after multiple trying I could take him on summer trainingscamp with me and hi could try fencing. After camp question was simple, should I take this equipment back with me, or maybe you will keep it and start practice.. same club Ive started, same Coach Ive started with.
So hi started, little late than hi should... but most important is to have fun.
Its a long way for him to be quite good, so long old, slow and overweight Godfather can give him lesson of real fencing.

Its quite interesting to see how hi develop, its totally different way Im looking on him.. Im coach, Godfather too... sometimes not best solution.
This situation gave me a lot of reasons to thing what happend if my son will try fencing.
I know a lot of father-coaches.. some of them make great job, but many not...
Hard situation, but life will show me for sure, how hard it can be.. or maybe my son will choose something else (hope not football).. but then what... be father who is just standing on side drung practices ? I dont think so..

 



 





mind is everything

May is very intensiv period in my life... always.
Same as december... actually.. always.

I need to believe that I can do everything what I need to do to succed. I always believe!
Thats why I succed already with few of my dreams
hope you believe that you can succed too.
I found one good quote, good enough to share it:

Mind is everything, Every thught you create manifests it self in real world,
if you didnt achieve something you strive for - you simply didnt believe in it enough.
Mario Novak.