Michael Edelson wrote: | ||
Then your theories on this cut are guesswork based on frog DNA. |
To be honest the push-pull cut is not even really frog DNA, at least to me it isn't because it does not come from any other bladed art. I've seen guard transitions that look like it, but true attacks with the edge seem to always involve an arc of the CoG around the hands at least. The push-pull cut from vom-tag or equivalent with a nearly linear motion of the CoG, as seems to be the current trend in German longsword, is seen only in these circles. It seems to me that it's a lot more guesswork than frog DNA... I'd be happy to be proven wrong though.
Cutting to or through longpoint is not a debate of the same kind, as there is evidence for both in many different arts. I do not doubt both were encountered even if one was seen as a mistake in some context. The simple fact that we are shown how to counter during the recovery phase of a full cut seems to indicate that it was used not just by raw beginners.
Regards,