Assorted notes:
- Fighting against refused-sword shield-fighters is hard. Fabris says to attempt sword opposition on their sword if their sword is refused, but this is hard. I didn't really use my rock-paper-scissors stance dance thingy, so bad on me.
- Stance Dance was working great today. Especially my dagger-forward-sword-back-body-low stance. That was great.
- I forget that melee is fun, sometimes. And it sure is fun. Somehow, in the time I haven't been doing melee, either my self-estimation has gone down or I have gotten better at it. Because I was more effective than I expected to be.
- I think that the stance-dance might not work super well against a short blade? It's weird.
- Maybe I need to figure out how to use my stances without direct blade engagement and only with virtual engagement.
- I should try in-fighting more! "The person who is willing to go lower, wins at in-fighting." An interesting insight.
- I need to work on my single-sword game. Perhaps also with my off-hand game. I don't like using my off-hand, on principle, but it's part of the game.
"Fabris says to attempt sword opposition on their sword if their sword is refused, but this is hard."
ReplyDeleteYeah, it sure is. I mean, Fabris is a big proponent of opposition without contact, and at times with like a foot or more of distance between weapons, so I read that (assuming I remember the reference correctly - I should doublecheck that when I have a copy handy) as basically "form a counterguard with opposition because they'll have to throw through your sword" but man, it's super hard to feel secure like that.
Suuuure is. My concern is when my opponent's sword is super far back, and then it's pointing right at me. I mean, that's a thing I do to people. I suppose the answer is to take a leftwards or rightwards step to break the line as you approach into larga, or perhaps as you close from larga into stretta.
DeleteI need to flip through book 1 and book 2 to see if Fabris addresses it.