Zucken
From Scholar Victoria
Pulling
The act of pulling away from a bind and cutting to a different opening with a swift twitch around their blade.
Application Examples
A demonstration of a simple pulling from a strong bind.
Teacher | Student |
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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. |
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 |
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Zornhut, left leg forward | Zornhut, left leg forward |
Passing Step, Zornhauw | Passing Step back, Zornhauw to a bind. |
Maintain the bind | Slide up the bind as if you intend to take away and cut around to the upper right openings. |
Move to parry right | Cut back with the false edge in a Sturtzhauw/Zwerch like motion back to the upper left openings. |