Proper Sword Cuts

[Randall Pleasant]

Aaron Pynenberg wrote:
...always moving the hands first then folwing with the body...

George Silver cover this subject well in his manuals. According to Silver there is the time of the hands, body, foot, and feet. If the hands move before the body & the body before the foot, etc., then you are in "True Time". If the body moves before the hand, then you are in "False Time".

[JeffGentry]

Hey Ran

George Silver cover this subject well in his manuals. According to Silver there is the time of the hands, body, foot, and feet. If the hands move before the body & the body before the foot, etc., then you are in "True Time". If the body moves before the hand, then you are in "False Time".

This kind of remind's of DiGrassi and his circle diagram of arm, hand, and weapon movement, and how you have to move the hand as well as the arm, i don't remember exactly what he said i haven't spent that much time in DiGrassi.


Jeff

P.S I realy need to sit down and seriously study Silver.

[ChrisThies]

Hello Matt,
If you read: http://www.thearma.org/essays/mastercuts.html
you'll see that your Zornhau application (ending in a thrust opportunity) matches the current general consensus.

As far as body mechanics of the strike goes, I'm personally in the same camp as all of the above guys in regards to starting with the hands first.