Sabre Drill 005 (les Dix Gammes Geuna) скачать в хорошем качестве

Sabre Drill 005 (les Dix Gammes Geuna)

René Geuna’s Drill #5 from his famous 10 Drills series. This is one of our favourites. It’s basically a succession of stop-cuts followed by parries going from tierce to quinte to quarte. Like drill #4, it suffers a little from the somewhat outmoded “parry quinte, riposte to head” exchange and we’ve also found that the stop-cut, parry quarte, riposte in response to the coach’s banderole from quinte is liable to get confused with the parry prime, riposte to head sequence (from the coach’s banderole from quinte) in drill #4. Nonetheless, it’s still a great drill. The person in the role of coach begins by initiating a slow cut to flank. As this develops, the student makes a stop-cut to the exposed upper/outer wrist before parrying in tierce. The student then ripostes to head and the coach makes a quinte parry. From this position, the coach ripostes to head and the student, with a reasonably extended arm (having made the initial cut to head) pronates the wrist, makes a stop-cut to the coach’s forearm or wrist before taking the parry in quinte. The student again ripostes to head, the coach takes a quinte parry and ripostes by banderole (to chest). The student, ensuring that her or his hand remains to the right – if right-handed – makes a stop-cut to the inside wrist of the coach as the banderole begins, before very swiftly moving to quarte to parry the banderole and riposte to head. It’s quite important to underline how all the stop-cuts are made from roughly the same hand position (i.e. tierce), especially in the final action where the blade is angled to quarte but the hand remains to the right, not being drawn into the quarte parry until the final line of attack is established. We’ve also found (as with many of these drills) that, when running people through them, it’s sometimes useful to allow the “student’s” ripostes to land, making sure the they are committed to each attack. As Geuna notes, this drill rewards excellent hand placement. He also reinforces the importance of not attempting to go too fast. While, as always, he encourages different speeds and rhythms, it is important not to rush, and to ensure correct hand placement for each stop-cut and parry. We’ve found that the swift movement to quarte in the final action is also an excellent means of ensuring students don’t “look for” the opponent’s blade in the parry. Geuna also notes several variations to this drill, including making double stop-cuts, or doing it with the student on the retreat. He also says the stop-cuts can be slowed down, while getting the student to make faster parry-ripostes. As noted at the beginning, this drill can be tacked onto drill #4, just watch for the prime-riposte of #4 vs. the stop-cut, quarte riposte of #5.