It can depend on the tournament you are at, typically no, at our club scoring requirements are mainly edge alignment and force to legal targets (legal targets are usually determined by the amount of gear someone is wearing), there are three main scoring actions, a cut, a thrust, and a slice, other ways to score include pommeling, and showing dominance through wrestling
@@vcuhema I imagine that edge alignment can be hard to evaluate at full speed. What proxies e.g. path of the sword, grip, etc. if any are typically used?
It’s something you build with experience you usually can tell by the path of the sword, for tournaments there are usually 4 judges per ring to assist the person running the match on deciding if there was proper alignment. Funnily enough one of the things that can help is sound, there is a slight difference between cutting someone with the edge of a sword and whipping them with the flat
@@vcuhema Thanks! I didn't think sound would be a factor with a feder, but now I speculate that edge on protection has more of a reverberation than flat on protection perhaps with a muted thump.
