more foot work

[JeffGentry]

Hello everyone,
Well was reading a post the other day i don't know who or where it was but it had to do with one of the master teaching a triangle for foot work if i'm not mistaken, i had been thinking about the foot work because i sometime's have trouble going from right to left ochs and not moving my feet, well a thought occured to me after seeing that and if i think about the diffrent gaurd's and strike's i can pretty much do them all and stay in a square, well i used to do some ballroom dancing and it could get kind of complicated in the foot work as far as i did one thing and my partner did something diffrent but i learned by just literaly having my partner stand and me doing the foot work around them now my thought is that it is very similar to a dance where it is subtle hand pressure that lead's the footwork and here the blade is the lead if we know the foot work and listen to the blade we can dance around seemingly with no effort or thought am i mistaken in these thought haven't tried them but want to it alsoi seem's to me that what alot of the research is is technique but no teaching method and we are not only learning the tecnique but how to teach it too. ok this is very long so i'll stop, i have alot on my mind. <img src="/forum/images/icons/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Jake_Norwood]

Hi Jeff.

That was a little dizzying, but I think I'm with you.

The idea of stepping in a triangle is explained by Meyer (although I'm pretty sure the term exists earlier, albeit unexplained). A "Triangle step" is when you step forward with one foot (either a pass or simple step, it doesn't matter) and then the back foot recovers by moving behind and past the lead foot. This turns the facing (as in your ballroom excercise) and keeps balance when you take a wide traverse (which appears to be the predominant German step).

Jake

[JeffGentry]

yea my thought's tend to ramble but that is exactly what i was thinking but if it is done multiple time in defense and attack it could be a square such as a right ochs then you attack then go to left ochs and you would slip a little side way's to get out of the opponent's line of attack and setup your's, wel i'll have to try a little exercise with my group and see if it will help with the footwork and learning to feel from the blade to direct your movement, i need to quit reading and thinking so much when i do post thing's. lol thank's Jake

[Jake_Norwood]

Jeff-

One word, buddy: punctuation! Slow down, use some periods, and even the "enter" key every now and then. It'll make it a lot easier for me (and others) to stick with ya.

Jake