Zucken

Pulling

The act of pulling away from a bind and cutting to a different opening with a swift twitch around their blade.

Application Examples

In which the 'student' demonstrates their knowledge to the 'teacher' of a pulling from the text, which shows how we can pull away to mislead them, then cut back in.

Teacher	Student
Zornhut, left leg forward	Zornhut, left leg forward
Passing Step, Zornhauw	Passing Step back, Zornhauw to a bind.
	Pull away from the bind and feint a short Zornhauw around to the upper right openings.
Move to parry right	Cut back with the false edge in a Sturtzhauw like motion back to the upper left openings.

In which the 'student' demonstrates their knowledge to the 'teacher' of a simple pulling from a strong bind.

Teacher	Student
Zornhut, left leg forward	Zornhut, left leg forward
Passing Step, Zornhauw	Passing Step back, Zornhauw to a bind.
Press hard in the bind	Pull away from the bind sliding up and over to the other side of their sword, using the continued contact to draw their bind out
	Cut back down behind their blade over their blade to slice the wrists.