Further Destreza Work

Greetings!

At practice yesterday, I decided to work something completely different from what I have been working on. Previously, I had been working on Playing My 45-and-Dagger Game. That has been getting a bit stale because I am messing around too much.

So, this practice I dropped back to my 37 and started trying to work my one-shotting people game. This is important because if someone expects that they could be one-shotted, they will approach more carefully than they otherwise would. This allows for more opportunities in the "ok we're fencing now" part of things, rather than my opponents knowing that my first action will always be defensive.

I didn't do this amazingly well - I think that I strayed into the second intention far too much. I really need to work on my attacks into people's guards, to provoke the correct reactions.

My even-more-offensive-than-usual game also led to an interesting insight about how cuts work, when stepping through. Essentially, you want to maintain middle-to-middle blade contact until you can put your hilt behind their hilt, with respect to their body. This will allow you to "snap" your blade around theirs.

This also has led to a thought that perhaps, out of all of the arbitrary Destrezesque guards that I do, I should be keeping my hilt toward the side of their body that their sword-hand is on, because the way that one executes a cut while passing to that side allows one to defend better than when attempting to go to the other side.

Explicit outline:
-Attack immediately more often. MORE AGGRESSION.
-Snappy winding/unwinding cuts. MORE CUTTING.
-Hilt to the left, tip to the right, against right-handed opponents. MORE... uh. SOMETHING.