Another attack is over. A good win which adds to the others two making them three good wins. I admit that i didn’t expect it, so i would say i definitely deserve a cigarette. Ok, fair enough i wasn’t the one on that platform, and indeed, even being down at the end of the same platform didn’t really make any significative contribution. She was good, and she did all by herself. And i just can’t stop being proud of her, of her improvements, of her dedication to training during these past two years, without any kind of big clamour, without attracting too many attentions, in silence, always smiling….Indeed, she Continua a leggere→

The thrust you make could possibly go in, that that you don’t make will definitely not go in.

This is one of the sentences i more often tell my athletes; and, while usually making fun of them, i add that they have an amazing collection of “non-made thrusts”, kept in their arm rather than freely released through a beautiful lunge.

Thus, i ask myself how could one possibly practice a sport such as fencing, where the main goal is that of touching, but being afraid of doing it. And it’s the supidest fear, because it is that kind of fear that will make what you don’t want to happen, precisely happen instead. What i mean is: if i am scared Continua a leggere→