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Nice answer Jake
and backed up by the masters. This is one of those things you start to think about during drills because you can - and perhaps one of the things that make drills more abstract from combat - good points i'm going to try to "not" keep this in my mind and try that approach
Thanks !

Hiya Daniel,

I am currently working with a couple of folks in the Staten Island area, we meet on weekend afternoons - if that location is good for you please contact me (Mpeters@speakeasy.org)
If I can answer any questions please feel free to reach out for me

This is an interesting point, we practice ways to kill and wish to do it in a safe enough way not to effect too many other areas of our life (like using your fingers, being able to walk <img src="/forum/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" /> )
Of late we've found that even during drills the exchanges can ...

If I understand you correctly then the flat to flat could be a set up for a winding/thrust off the defender's blade but both options suggest follow through on a technique that is already known and being waited for.
Maybe Alice's best move would be to either change up the attack or use the initial ...

I've had a bad EMA habit of watching the eyes - which doesn't really help all that much. In our regular practice watching the chest allows you to see arm movements and torso alignment and that does help (and the fact that our other Staten Island training partner now waits for me to look up to lanuch ...