Just a FYI on where I am right now. Currently mid-terms are several
days away, and the hardest thing right now is keeping track of all
my assignments. The course material is stuff we did in 10th grade,
but it is moving very quickly (we covered two years of high school
in two weeks). I can't wait until we get to stuff I've never seen
before.

Regarding fencing: I have practice from 10am to 1pm Mon-Fri, and two
hours of "games" on Saturday, totaling 17 hours of fencing every
week. We start with 15 minutes of warm-ups and stretching, then 45
minutes of footwork. Then we suit up for individual lessons with
the weapon coaches while the rest of us free-bout. Fridays we have
competition where the free-fencing is in competition style with
pools and DEs. I get a lesson or two every week, but what I have
learned so far is amazing. With only a few lessons under my belt, I
have improved from consistantly winning 25% of my bouts to 50%.

We have about ten Men's Epee (six are freshmen) fencers on the team,
and I can defeat all but one of the freshmen consistantly. I have
also defeated everyone on the team at least once, except for our
star Denis Tolkachev (#4 in NCAAs) from Russia. I went 3-5 with him.

The women's saber team has #5 in the country, who trained with the
Jacobsons in Georgia. The men's foil team has Boaz Ellis, NCAA
champ (who pushed me into oncoming traffic last week, thanks). The
men's saber team has Jason Rogers, Olympian, and Adam Crompton, NCAA
champ. The women's foil team has Metta and Hanna Thompson, who are
very high in the USFA standings.

Hopefully I will be in some dual-meet action this year, but I am not
really worried about it too much. I just want to train and learn.
My email is sher.6@..., so send me a message. I check it all
the time.

See you guys later. Keep training hard.


-Eric


P.S. The foil times have changes! They're amazing to use!