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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2021 19:35:59 GMT
Hey I was just wondering what you're guys favourite sword and dagger drills are to build muscle memory? Ideally, I'm thinkng an Arming sword and dagger, or a broadsword and dirk, or anything. I find rapier and dagger stuff always needs another person for drills.
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Post by Adventurer'sBlade on Jan 2, 2022 2:49:53 GMT
Here's some stuff for shorter weapons that shows how the dagger can be used in lieu of a checking hand. So when you parry with the sword, you're simultaneously slashing at the opponent's weapon arm with your dagger, or thrusting straight out to their body/head while using your sword as cover.
Easiest way to use sword and dagger is when you throw a backhand with the sword, you immediately follow up with a thrust from the dagger. So the regular X-strike pattern of forehand-backhand with a sword becomes forehand-backhand-dagger thrust. That tends to work better than trying to throw a dagger thrust immediately after a sword forehand unless the sword forehand is a broken strike that resets to the same side it came from.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2022 4:30:47 GMT
Here's some stuff for shorter weapons that shows how the dagger can be used in lieu of a checking hand. So when you parry with the sword, you're simultaneously slashing at the opponent's weapon arm with your dagger, or thrusting straight out to their body/head while using your sword as cover. Easiest way to use sword and dagger is when you throw a backhand with the sword, you immediately follow up with a thrust from the dagger. So the regular X-strike pattern of forehand-backhand with a sword becomes forehand-backhand-dagger thrust. That tends to work better than trying to throw a dagger thrust immediately after a sword forehand unless the sword forehand is a broken strike that resets to the same side it came from. Nice, thanks for the tip. I been incorporating it into drills and I been finding I don't use it as much, but this pattern makes sense. It reminds me of a boxing drill. Thanks for the video as well, I'll proly bing the channel *edit * Yea i just tried it out, I can see how I can alter your suggestions in my drills using the video as further inspiration.
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