While I was becoming acquainted with the nomenclature of our parries, I built this flash card game to help me study: https://sumbrada.jessecrouch.com Perhaps it will be useful to some of you, particularly if you are new or struggling with terminology. There's no end goal and it's endless play. Just for study! If you'd like to modify or save it (for offline use), feel free to save the page. The game is written in Javascript and the code is all right there in a single HTML file. Mark, I've been meaning to leave a credit for you on there but I've temporarily lost access to this part of my server. We'll get there. The rest of you, Mark isn't the only one who is serious about the language of fencing. My western fencing instructor similarly insists on its importance. "If you can't speak it, then you can't think it, and then you can't do it".

Hello stick brothers and sisters! I'm quite far from HQ but currently supplementing my stick Escrima training with traditional Western Fencing (like with a foil) - not the modern Olympic kind with the electronic scoring machine. It's quite practical and, like Mark teaches Escrima, begins with the fundamentals of how fighting actually works, not just a pretty collection of techniques one could only employ in a classroom. I'm to the phase of bouting which is quite fun. I'm getting pretty decent at feinting and timing as it is an absolute requirement to achieve any sort of touch. We are all fencers here, but who among you also practice with a foil/epee/sabre?