Attacking in true times - historical sword techniques 

The principles remain the same - the hand always moves first. As for attacking a deep target like the torso from the side - that's what footwork is for. You circle on the edge of distance, and then close the distance with an attack.

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+Rafael Ramos da Costa I'm only vaguely familiar with Oz's interpretation. I trained under Pete Radvan (stoccata.org/index.php/about-us/provosts/20-peter-radvan) who was one of the pioneers of the more orthodox interpretation of Silver you see in my video and tend to be much more familiar with that. Those recommendations reflect that Silver thinks you should only come near your opponent while covered, either by an attack (as we see with true times) or by guardant ward, which closes the most direct lines of attack. He does not believe in provoking a response in your opponent (as we see with my video on provocation ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZrRbVYTfORw.html). On the whole Silver does not seem to like the idea that you get your opponent to do something in order to attack them, and prefers the security of distance and steel.

+Tim Is Green can you show me where silver recomends entering with an attack but the interpretation of true time? (because exactly that is under question here) also can you explain how one would 'force' a false time attack against a true time defense only by keeping distance as Silver advocates many times? because If starting with the hand before the feet is the true time one will always be able to enter in true time no matter how far he is. "because the unskillful fights upon false times, which being too long to answer the true times, the skillful fighting upon the true times, although the unskillful is the first mover, & entered into his action, whether it is blow or thrust, yet the shortness of the true times make at the pleasure of the skillful a just meeting together." this tells the attacker starts his blow before (as the orthodox interpretation) and it still is a false time. if you want a more 'fluid' place to talk feel free to call me in fb facebook.com/rafaelramos.dacosta

+Rafael Ramos da Costa Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. There's actually a video that covers where Silver says this along with a detailed technical breakdown at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DBRHra6llvI.html