Drawing blood

At Shelby's fencing tournament, before her first bout, she had a nose bleed. They actually had to skip her bout while her mother helped get the nosebleed stopped. But then there was blood on the front of her jacket the whole time so it looked like she had battle wounds. Though she didn't do much battling. As with her previous tournament, Shelby did a lot of backing-off instead of attacking, so she lost all of her bouts. For one half of one bout she did well at attacking, but then she got discouraged again. Not sure if we're going to do many more tournaments until she's more comfortable with attacking people bigger than her.