What to Expect on Your First Session
by: Bev Santos-Alarcon
On your first session, be in t-shirt and jogging pants. It will be a very physical activity.
Wear your socks and rubbershoes. Rubber shoes are preferrably thin-soled. Thick basketball rubbershoes make the legwork more difficult.
Bring water, towel and an extra t-shirt. After your first session you will need to wipe your sweat. Fencing is a very good exercise. According to caloriecount.about.com, 420 calories per hour are burned with fencing, assuming a body weight of 70 kg. Fencing is a workout without trying it so hard.
There will be muscle pain in the thigh and legs after the first session. It will be kind of challenging to climb the stairs. That is only at the start of your fencing career. That’s because your leg muscles are not yet used to the on-guard position. But once you are into the sport, being on-guard will be just like sitting on a chair. Be sure to do the stretching exercises before the first session. Not doing the stretching will give you an intenser muscle pain.
The session will be about 30 minutes to 45 minutes with breaks in between. This is for beginners only so that your body will not be suddened by the drills. Once you are regularly training, your endurance will improve and you can train for an hour already. Training more frequently will speed up your increase in endurance. Twice-a-week training will lengthen your endurance faster than training once-a-week.
Keep in mind that after more sessions, you will develop the proper form. Don’t be discouraged if at first your on-guard is not yet beautiful or good. As you train more and more, you will be used to the proper form. Training for months and months, will make you do the form even without thinking about it. After you master the form by repetition, your mind will be ready to focus on strategy.
Always listen to your instructor. Follow the corrections. Don’t be discouraged if he/she repeats the correction. Repetitive correction will remind you on what you must focus on.
Be patient if your instructor does not let you hold a sword first. He/she will let you once you master the on-guard position.
Remember that you will get the basics if you will keep on training. So do not quit but keep on perservering. You will reap what you will sow.
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