Effective Zufechten: Time, Measure, Advantage 

Glad you got something out of it! I'll even allow the use of Imperial Neils for measurement :D

Thanks - glad you liked the video :)

Thanks. I'm glad you found it useful :)

Good point. The afterblow is often difficult to avoid. If your opponent is prone to do afterblows, I usually find that attacking the arms instead of the body to be helpful (firstly because it discourages their attack, but also because you can do it while moving to a safer distance). For attacks on deep targets it's worth using attacks with strong opposition as well as offline movement (depending on the style)- a provocation using a thrust, for example, followed by a cut around with a zwerch to their upper right opening, then moving quickly away. In the end, it's always going to be difficult to avoid a really quick afterblow :D

@@DanielPopeScholarVictoria Thanks, I will try to focus hands/arms next time. As for the moving sideways, I tested it quite a lot and find it not very effective for me: it is too slow (consider sideway acceleration of my 95+ kg against weapon movement + rotation of the opponent). It also very quickly eats through stamina :) Strong opposition is what I typically try to do, but it has an intrinsic problem I still cannot solve: if you tend to commit to strong opposition and this is spotted by the opponent, it is relatively easy for them to put in an afterblow by kind of sacrifing themself first (like doing an intentional double hit in epee fencing). One extra factor is that we fight with plastic longswords (1 kg) which makes easier to do fast afterblows in comparison with steel weapons. Do you have more thoughts to share?

@@andrmoro8430 the side-ways movement is more about angling off to the side from the outset - for example launching a thrust from a low guard, angle off so you're going past the opponent's right shoulder, and as they parry your thrust (or you land it) zwerch around to their right side and then continue moving past them. The intentional double hit is a difficult problem - the only response to people who do that is to refuse to attack, and just feint until an opportunity appears then tag their arms - suicidal fencers are not the ones to use the prestige techniques on ;-)

@@DanielPopeScholarVictoria haha good point ;)