@mcapanelli, Its true, if you start sparing it is the first step of learning your balance, coordination, timing, distance & when you start making really harder contact you will make more adjustments. Combination's will make a change in your stances, to come back & attack several times will be different, if you have to reach & retract, it will become automatic once you do it enough & never notice it until you have to teach & then you will see what you have been doing without thought for so long.
Come to think of it, my whole game changed when I started sparring. My stance, the way I received a blow when I had to, my use of voids, everything. Your spot on about that one.
@mcapanelli, It is his stance that is slightly off balance, so he is a beginner. This happens when you have no fighting skills to teach a good stance & go straight to weapons. When he starts sparing he will get better balance.
Get's good towards the end but appears a little beginnerish overall. I'm not sure if he's doing Italian or German from the Meyer era. I'm going to go with Meyer. The footwork seems to be simple passing steps where he should be using a slope pace attacking on an angle. Also his middle cuts go flat before he would have hit his target causing the flat to strike instead of the last third of the sword so there'd be no kill there. Overall the bad edge alinement would prevent him from cutting.
That's very good. You can see the momentum he builds up in his swings. This wasn't a practice for speed and elegance, it was designed to deliver a killing blow and "end the fight as quickly as possible", with as little energy as possible, simply as possible. Students after me will go up against Asian martial artists and kick butt because they use such a sheer amount of simplicity. That swing will knock your weapon out of your hand or clear out of the way for the second strike to kill you.
0/10 for sticking your sword in the dirt like that
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zoomzoomlol 9 months ago
@mcapanelli, Its true, if you start sparing it is the first step of learning your balance, coordination, timing, distance & when you start making really harder contact you will make more adjustments. Combination's will make a change in your stances, to come back & attack several times will be different, if you have to reach & retract, it will become automatic once you do it enough & never notice it until you have to teach & then you will see what you have been doing without thought for so long.
ShorinRyuRonin 1 year ago
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Come to think of it, my whole game changed when I started sparring. My stance, the way I received a blow when I had to, my use of voids, everything. Your spot on about that one.
mcapanelli 1 year ago
@mcapanelli, It is his stance that is slightly off balance, so he is a beginner. This happens when you have no fighting skills to teach a good stance & go straight to weapons. When he starts sparing he will get better balance.
ShorinRyuRonin 1 year ago
Get's good towards the end but appears a little beginnerish overall. I'm not sure if he's doing Italian or German from the Meyer era. I'm going to go with Meyer. The footwork seems to be simple passing steps where he should be using a slope pace attacking on an angle. Also his middle cuts go flat before he would have hit his target causing the flat to strike instead of the last third of the sword so there'd be no kill there. Overall the bad edge alinement would prevent him from cutting.
mcapanelli 1 year ago
That's very good. You can see the momentum he builds up in his swings. This wasn't a practice for speed and elegance, it was designed to deliver a killing blow and "end the fight as quickly as possible", with as little energy as possible, simply as possible. Students after me will go up against Asian martial artists and kick butt because they use such a sheer amount of simplicity. That swing will knock your weapon out of your hand or clear out of the way for the second strike to kill you.
ColonelMarksman 2 years ago
what sword is it???
Im planing to buy one myself!
aramanx 2 years ago
No, this is slow indeed. Flourish shouldn't immediately be at top speed though.
Ranziel1 2 years ago
Actually no, it has a good speed, trying to get faster will make you lose balance in a fight, because the footing can't stay firm.
Yemetha 2 years ago
too slow
Andunekull 2 years ago