Tuesday, May 14, 2013

May things to work on


"Eyes open": When attacking or feinting, pause very slightly in order to see how opponent reacts and proceed appropriately. Like: Advance-extend to threaten inside wrist, pause very slightly and see how the opponent responds:

  • Does nothing: Continue to wrist with advance or lunge.
  • Counterattacks: Parry-ripsote (OR, stop hit into the counterattack?)
  • Parries:
    • Parry 4: Disengage and advance or lunge to the arm.
    • Circle 6 parry: Counter-disengage and continue to wrist; OR
    • Circle 6 parry-ripsote: Ceding parry to prime, riposte (ceding motion similar to counter-disengage: counter-clockwise)

"Low lines": A couple things:

  • Older idea of making a low line feint or actual attempt at the hand and, if opponent counterattacks higher responding with a sharp upward beat then continuing to body.
  • Doing a parry 8 expecting opponent to disengage out of and attack high, respond with a (ceding?) parry 1 and riposte.
"Appels": Both front and back foot appels. Back foot appel interesting: Make an advance slowly with the front foot, then quicker with the back, with an appel, then accelerating into an even faster lunge or advance-lunge, etc.

"Four-six": Advance while moving into a parry 4 position, encouraging an attack into 6. Advance again with a strong parry 6 riposte. A kind of one-two thing that sometimes works very nicely.

"Low-high fleche": Advance while threatening low, wrist pronated, then rapidly rotate wrist supine and fleche into 6. The whole smoothly as a "one-two" action.

Finally, as always, remembering to "lead with the arm", not the feet. And furthermore, when recovering keep the arm straight and threatening. Arm recovers last!

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