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Ryan S.
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I couldn't see what the guy in the video was saying, but I think muscle memory is important. But you do have to train well, although I think training two hours a day, everyday, will also get you some results in the aspect. It also depends on the person, some people just freeze up during stress. However, if you have conditioned your body to react a certain way. That is how it reacts.
This is how it works with other skills, like walking. If you want to walk somewhere, you just do it. You don't consciously think about moving one foot in front of the other. If you are at this level of fighting, then even if your conscious mind is preoccupied with fear you can still fight. Furthermore, if you can properly handle the stress, you can strategize.
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Christopher B Lellis
Location: Houston, Texas Joined: 01 Dec 2012
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| Craig Peters wrote: | | Any time you strike across from one opening to another, whether or not you are in a bind, leaves you exposed to the point of a sword. My point is that this technique might be good for demonstrating to beginners what not to do, but it imperils you in the process. |
I can wing a sword pretty darn fast and forcefully, you might not have time to react with what you want to do.
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Craig Peters
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| Christopher B Lellis wrote: |
I can wing a sword pretty darn fast and forcefully, you might not have time to react with what you want to do. |
It depends what context we're talking about. If you're cutting at me, and I've displaced and bound your sword, then you could wing the sword pretty fast around to the other side, but all I need to do is drive my point forward. Assuming I've displaced well, I'm in the inherently better position, because my point is aiming at your face or breast. To suddenly cut to the other side, even with something like a zwerchau requires you to move all the way around my sword. The arc your cut has to make is far longer than the few inches it takes to drive the point forward.
It is noteworthy that, of the majority of the core actions made from the bind with a long sword, whether duplieren, mutieren, winden with stabbing, none of them involve cutting to opposite sides of the body, i.e. cutting to the upper left opening, and the cutting across to the upper right. Of course, there are exceptions to this, but they are entirely contextual and occur under specific circumstances only, like when someone is pressing with a great deal of strength against you in a bind.
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