Fehlen

Failing

The act of redirecting a cut smoothly part way through and cutting through to another opening. This differs from Verfliegen in that it is a smooth redirection rather than jerking away.

Application Examples

In which the 'student' demonstrates their knowledge to the 'teacher' of a failing attack which moves to the side.

Meister	Lehrling
Eisenport, left leg forward	Zornhut, left leg forward
	Passing Step, Zornhauw
Long edge parry.	Before impact, lift the pommel and let the blade run off to your right in a circle (Zirckel) by the left side.
	Step left and cut over with a Zornhauw to the upper right opening.

Note: In some ways Fehlen is related to Ablauffen, the main difference being that fehlen preempts blade contact so that it fails before the contact occurs.