the footwork on the thrust at 1:42 is interesting: - you start in plow with a fairly narrow stance - you drop to fool as you move your left foot back thereby widening your stance to what i'd call ordinary width - you bring your sword up from fool to plow as you spring off your back foot into what i'd call lunge width - _then_ you extend your sword for the thrust; your weight is still moving forward and your thrust is parried off and withdrawn just as your back leg comes off the ground - to recover you hop on your lead foot to get your center of mass under you you threw that attack just as your opponent was hopping forward himself, probably to maintain measure in response to your initial backward move -- i think there's a lesson there, something to try to incorporate into my game; if he'd misjudged the distance and come forward on that hop just a tiny bit more you would have caught him
In boxing it's called a split step. You move your feet in both directions as a way of manipulating distance. In this case I think it happened moreso because I was threatened and decided to thrust mid retreat
Hey JW, around 5min, when your opponent threw the downwards strike from high Vom Tag, which you parried, then your riposte didn't land. It looks on the video like you pulled your cut to avoid whacking him in the back of the head, which was the sensible thing to do. Did you get points awarded for that ? Because technically you *could* have hit him, you just didn't for safety reasons. So I'm curious to know how this is dealt with by the refs
Basically I attempted to pull my strike a bit but ended up not landing at all. The judges gave me those points, specifically because I could have but didn't since the target was not allowed. I can't take full credit for doing it all on purpose though which is why I threw a follow-up
