{"id":2657,"date":"2025-07-19T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:25:18","slug":"wcos-event-best-of-the-best-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/2025\/07\/19\/20\/2657\/","title":{"rendered":"WCoS Event &#8211; Best of the Best 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">I traveled to Half Moon Bay for this years Best of the Best tournament. Last year I had a strategy of matching my opponent&#8217;s style, i.e. if they were fighting with a two handed weapon, I did too (bastard sword), or if they fought with two weapons, I did (sword + dagger), or they fought one handed so did I. It worked okay, but I had a really poor overall win\/loss ratio. This year I decided to just stick to my original, primary style, two handed bastard (aka hand and a half) sword. I&#8217;ll edit once I have stats, but I believe I did better than last year, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I traveled to Half Moon Bay for this years Best of the Best tournament. Last year I had a strategy of matching my opponent&#8217;s style, i.e. if they were fighting with a two handed weapon, I did too (bastard sword), or if they fought with two weapons, I did (sword + dagger), or they fought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,10,33,6],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-event","tag-steel","tag-sword","tag-wcos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordfighter.org\/trainingjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}