Lupold's REAL ULTIMATE DESTREZA - Index

(The title is a joke-reference to this website, an example of early internet humor, because I'm more likely to follow through with something if I'm less serious about it.)

~OPENING~

I haven't been using this blog very much recently. This is because, any time I try to write something, I get caught up in too many layers of explanation to actually say anything at all.

So, I had an idea. An idea to force me to think things through, but limit me from getting too deep into edge-case scenarios. This idea should also make things accessible to both depth-first learners, who want to have everything Completely Correct At The Get-Go, and breadth-first learners, who want to get a general idea and then Adjust As Things Progress.

In this, I plan to start off with the hyper-idealized form of my study of Destreza. It will present the general geometric concepts, and will be intentionally unreasonable. Then, I plan to cover each individual section with a focus on why the hyper-idealized version of Destreza doesn't work, and what adjustments need made to make it work.

In order to attempt to get myself to proceed on this project, I herein will write an index. This index will serve as an outline for future posts. Hopefully when I inevitably find a thing that I did wrong here, I will edit this, rather than giving up and making a new post.

1. Opening / Index
1. Order of Reading
2. The Section of Primordial Truth
1. Introduction
2. On The Four Dimensions of Movement
1. Disengage versus Cut Over
2. Pulling Out versus Pushing Over
3. Opposition versus Attack to Slowness
4. Yielding Around versus Pommel Strike
3. The Section of Truth - The True Art
1. Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
4. The Sections of Lies - Inconveniences of Geometry
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
5. The Sections of Lies - Biology and Eccentric Movements
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
6. The Sections of Lies - Timing and Feints
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
7. The Sections of Lies - Distance and Asymmetries
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
8. The Sections of Lies - Asymmetrical Armaments
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
9. The Sections of Lies - Asymmetrical Stances
1.  Introduction
2. On Divisions of Space
3. On Stepping
4. On Defensive Bladework
5. On Offensive Bladework
6. On Positioning
10. Closing

 So, that seems like an index.

~ORDER OF READING~

My intention, for this project, is to have two possible orders of reading.

Both orders of reading will start with the Book of Primordial Truth. This describes a framework for how swords relate to each other, which is to be used throughout the book. After, there are two ways that one can proceed.

DEPTH-FIRST: For those who don't want to learn wrong things over and over again, you can go depth-first. Read chapter 1 of each section, then chapter 2 of each section, and so forth. This will leave some cross-chapter references opaque, and might require multiple times through the book to fully understand what I'm talking about.

BREADTH-FIRST: For those who don't want to get over-focused on individual minutiae at the cost of losing sight of the overall point of the book, you can proceed breadth-first. This is the order of presentation, with each section in the order it is indexed. This will mean that you will learn things that, in a broad sense, are correct. However, there are many details in which the broad understanding of things is not correct, and this ordering will force you to re-evaluate your understanding of things repeatedly.

We'll see how this goes.