Of course, my initial reaction to being handed a saber was, “But I’m still struggling to understand foil! I’m not ready for something new!” 🙂 And with saber, it’s going to be very much about the basics for now–learning how to parry and riposte and simply hold the blade properly and for extended periods of time.
And I suspect trying to get my muscles to instinctively remember which weapon I’m holding and how to respond to it will be an interesting challenge, too.
But if I get tired of all that, there are always the basics to get back to. I didn’t practice my footwork hardly at all while I traveling. I thought I was going to feel that when I returned, and, yeah. I did. Not so much in an I-hurt-now way as in an I-can’t-do-this-for-nearly-as-long-as-I-expected sort of way.