08-05-2008, 02:01 AM
Adding in to Matt, the feet can be moved more quickly...a sword or spear stroke to the foot requires that the foot be still. A simple shift of the weight, and the target is removed, yet the attacker is still out of position. All sorts of counters for that, mostly involving attacking the sword arm come to mind.
Soldiers in that situation know what is likely, and one of the basic training maneuvers was a hop over a low blow, along with a duck under a high blow. That twirling, thumping log gizmo (don't know the name) is a training tool that has been used as long as there's been organized soldiery with hand weapons. Sort of fallen out of use nowadays, of course.
Soldiers in that situation know what is likely, and one of the basic training maneuvers was a hop over a low blow, along with a duck under a high blow. That twirling, thumping log gizmo (don't know the name) is a training tool that has been used as long as there's been organized soldiery with hand weapons. Sort of fallen out of use nowadays, of course.
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
