Attacking around the Blade - Learn Sidesword!

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[@corrugatedcavalier5266]

Good stuff as usual. I always love it when you can bring out the general concepts in Dall'Agocchie's large repertoire of actions.

[@SchildwachePotsdam]

Thank you, I always hope this way the lessons are a bit easier to digest instead of giving "just" a set of choreography :)

[@Arcuzool]

Excellent video!

[@SchildwachePotsdam]

Thank you! :)

[@MartinGreywolf]

One important caveat to these thrusts - the wider your opponent parries, the worse an idea they are. The video parries were incredibly narrow, so the thrusts were petty much a straight line and just as long as the standard ones. But if your opponent parries wider, you need to either increase the angle between your wrist and the blade or make a bigger step to the side. The former looses reach, the latter looses time, and there comes a point (usually sooner than you'd think) at which these thrusts become too dangerous to use.

[@logansites]

But if they make a bigger parry, the thrusts are easier to abandon and either sfalsata or cut around

[@SchildwachePotsdam]

Fair point, but as @logansites said. This opens them up for a compound attack or feints. So of course it's not a be-all-end-all solution to fencing, yet a useful technique against certain kind of opponents who parry really narrowly :)

[@Davlavi]

Beautiful

[@SchildwachePotsdam]

Thank you 😊

[@porta_di_ferro]

Very interesting but seems considerably more dangerous than true-edge techniques.

[@MyYTchannel.thenationalrazor]

A lot of theory but never show it put into practice.