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Jean Thibodeau




PostPosted: Wed 24 Dec, 2014 7:55 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Lancelot Chan wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpPtaoxmOjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLpngPpvJs

Freestyle fencing with customers


One thing I notice in these two videos is that your opponents seem to attack when way out of measure and even if you didn't move at all some of their attacks would have missed.

You often take advantage of this by voiding and by waiting for them to make a mistake: Sometimes taking the " initiative " means waiting for the other guy to go first and be fully committed, if the guy just attacks because he loses patience just waiting, he will attack from out of measure and really not " have a plan ": He wasn't waiting for an actual opening in your defence, but just randomly deciding to attack.

Taking or keeping the initiative doesn't always mean attacking first: If you control measure/timing better you can incite the opponent to attack by giving the illusion of being close enough to attack.

Some of your surprise one handed attacks might not work as well against someone really good, and if you miss with your head being forward they might get you before you can recover: These one handed lunge attacks can be very good, but they are also very risky.

Not just about this video, but about perceiving who won, I will admit that I find it difficult to see the winning blow and not confuse it with the loser's blows because depending on the view it can be difficult to sort out a blow that hits versus a blow that just missed by a hair and that was close to simultaneous with the winner's blow ?

One would almost need to see the same from 2 or 3 angles including a top view to better understand what one just saw as the action is too fast for the eye to follow with any real certainty.

One could repeat the critical instant of the winning blow in slow motion and maybe add arrows to show the point of impact/cut or thrust: A still frame of the moment of contact might also help ?

Another thing is that since the hits are not actually incapacitating the " Loser " is not stopped from continuing their motion leading to a very close to simultaneous " After Blow " that might not have happened if the cut or thrust had " stopping power ?

There is the further issue of the successful " After Blow " where both would have been killed or seriously wounded in a real fight ? Prudence in a real fight meaning that after a successful hit one must still defend against an after blow or double kills !

The best technique is when you hit and don't get hit back using either a single time attack/defence or a parry/guard after the successful blow to defend any openings in one's defence !?

In my opinion, a good mindset is too imagine and act as if one could really die if one messes up, and this might slow the decision to attack to only good openings at the right measure and timing !? All, of this is easy to write but a lot harder to do successfully, so i'm making observations and giving opinions with a constructive intent. Big Grin Cool

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These two opponents were beginner studying Japanese kenjutsu. It was their first time to spar full speed with actual weight simulators. One of them, Anthony, has a wrong belief that he should exert his AURA to scare me and to cut with all his effort.

Yes, those one handed attacks are a risky move. Thus most of my students were afraid of doing those. It takes good measure and big courage to execute.

I did not spend time to mark all our videos because marking the videos take a lot of time and effort. For each mark, I review frame by frame to see who hit first and how effective was the hit including consideration on blade alignment, location, as well as striking power. Then I also have to go on and see the immediate motion after the hit to check if the after blow would deliver too, in case the initial hit was not instantly incapacitating. That's why we have yellow dot or white dot. Yellow dot is "victory with injuries" and whit dot is "double disabled/killed". Usually I only mark my own videos because of that.

I also agree with that one should train with the mindset to "not getting hit by the dying blow of the opponent". That's what I do, and try to get the students to do too. Sometimes I use a blunt sword to stimulate them to treat the sparring more realistic, since sometimes they forgot that in reality they only get 1 life and they don't want to get hit at all.

An important thing they need to learn is to understand "when to be afraid, when to be VERY afraid, and when to be not being afraid at all". This, depends on distance and situation.

They either messed up that they were not knowing danger, or were too scared way too early.

Jean Thibodeau wrote:

One thing I notice in these two videos is that your opponents seem to attack when way out of measure and even if you didn't move at all some of their attacks would have missed.

You often take advantage of this by voiding and by waiting for them to make a mistake: Sometimes taking the " initiative " means waiting for the other guy to go first and be fully committed, if the guy just attacks because he loses patience just waiting, he will attack from out of measure and really not " have a plan ": He wasn't waiting for an actual opening in your defence, but just randomly deciding to attack.

Taking or keeping the initiative doesn't always mean attacking first: If you control measure/timing better you can incite the opponent to attack by giving the illusion of being close enough to attack.

Some of your surprise one handed attacks might not work as well against someone really good, and if you miss with your head being forward they might get you before you can recover: These one handed lunge attacks can be very good, but they are also very risky.

Not just about this video, but about perceiving who won, I will admit that I find it difficult to see the winning blow and not confuse it with the loser's blows because depending on the view it can be difficult to sort out a blow that hits versus a blow that just missed by a hair and that was close to simultaneous with the winner's blow ?

One would almost need to see the same from 2 or 3 angles including a top view to better understand what one just saw as the action is too fast for the eye to follow with any real certainty.

One could repeat the critical instant of the winning blow in slow motion and maybe add arrows to show the point of impact/cut or thrust: A still frame of the moment of contact might also help ?

Another thing is that since the hits are not actually incapacitating the " Loser " is not stopped from continuing their motion leading to a very close to simultaneous " After Blow " that might not have happened if the cut or thrust had " stopping power ?

There is the further issue of the successful " After Blow " where both would have been killed or seriously wounded in a real fight ? Prudence in a real fight meaning that after a successful hit one must still defend against an after blow or double kills !

The best technique is when you hit and don't get hit back using either a single time attack/defence or a parry/guard after the successful blow to defend any openings in one's defence !?

In my opinion, a good mindset is too imagine and act as if one could really die if one messes up, and this might slow the decision to attack to only good openings at the right measure and timing !? All, of this is easy to write but a lot harder to do successfully, so i'm making observations and giving opinions with a constructive intent. Big Grin Cool

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvh7I412XsE
Freestyle fencing with left handed armored sword and shield man Alex for 62 rounds.

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http://youtu.be/fEQgA0VpStw
The first trial of the master grade 4.0 Chinese 2 handed longsword (Dung's sword)

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Lancelot Chan wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvh7I412XsE
Freestyle fencing with left handed armored sword and shield man Alex for 62 rounds.


How much experience does Alex have with sword and shield, or even with the one handed sword ?

Firstly I only have modest experience with sword and buckler and a lot more with longsword or staff, so I'm mainly guessing at some " flaws " in technique that I'm perceiving, but following are sort of observations and questions, and I hope still respectful about Alex as I might not do any better myself in the same situation.

A) The shield is very small for a strapped to the arm shield and at this size a centre grip buckler might do better using shield and buckler techniques where the buckler is mostly there to protect the sword hand and where the sword is used much more to parry or bind with the buckler then pinning the opponent's sword freeing the one handed sword to strike.

( A 30" diameter Viking style centre grip shield would greatly increase the difficulty level of trying to get past the shield )

B) A much longer strapped to the arm shield like a 40" long kite shield would be much harder to get around and more like a protective wall.

C) Having a shield Alex seems to be too focused in using it while forgetting to use measure to avoid leg strikes. Chasing your sword with the shield just doesn't work because of the small size of the shield and he would do much better remembering to withdraw the forward leg. It also make him subject to being suckered by a high or low feint and hit high or low where the shield isn't there to protect him.

In longsword one avoids strikes to the legs 90% of the time by just passing the lead leg backwards and attacking the head of the opponent ..... as I'm sure you know.

So, just because one has a shield one shouldn't forget using everything else that one would do if one didn't have the shield.

D) Maybe intercepting your high attacks with the shield would work better if he wasn't trying to chase your sword and telegraphing it from out of measure ?

E) At least once, I think you where both in wrestling range, and sort of tangled up and Alex seemed a bit " confused " as to what to do, but he could in " theory " have used the rim of the shield as a weapon as you where completely open to a shield rim attack for at least 1/2 a second ..... maybe avoiding this to not cause you an injury ? Or maybe forgetting that the shield is not only defensive but can be understood as a second weapon ?


Anyway, looking forward to get your opinion about my guesswork here and any criticism or contrary opinions that would be instructive. Big Grin Cool

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It was Alex's first try with his gear and shield. So except that he always assumed that he was more familiar with sword and shield by instinct, it was actually his virgin voyage on the set up.

Yup, he thought a bigger shield would have worked better and I agree with your comments. Big Grin Sword and shield, plus armor, is just "double protective" and even at his current state, I was having a difficult time dealing with him. LOL If he did what you suggested, that would definitely be a one sided bout. hehhe

He wasn't familiar with close works yet, so he was totally "out of his comfort zone" when I caught his sword arm and just wanted to struggle free instead.

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http://youtu.be/S-du3lJrHv8
A rare video where I used a katana to spar.

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http://youtu.be/7Qt5KbhIiyM
Maxwell has refined his techniques to the point that I could not always defend well once I lost the initiative. Good job!

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Lancelot Chan wrote:
http://youtu.be/7Qt5KbhIiyM
Maxwell has refined his techniques to the point that I could not always defend well once I lost the initiative. Good job!


Yes he is getting to be good enough that you can't afford to make a mistake, mostly in measure and/or timing.

There seemed to be a little bit of work from the bind in some of the exchanges ?

Also a sign of a good teacher when the teacher is proud when the student gets good enough to beat him. Wink Big Grin Cool

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Right, consider his sword is 4 lbs, the fineness he did in the bind and in the strikes without telegraphing me, was really impressive compare to his past performance. I'm so happy that soon I can retire. Big Grin

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Lancelot Chan wrote:
http://youtu.be/7Qt5KbhIiyM
Maxwell has refined his techniques to the point that I could not always defend well once I lost the initiative. Good job!


Yes he is getting to be good enough that you can't afford to make a mistake, mostly in measure and/or timing.

There seemed to be a little bit of work from the bind in some of the exchanges ?

Also a sign of a good teacher when the teacher is proud when the student gets good enough to beat him. Wink Big Grin Cool

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http://youtu.be/k8yDg3yrvPY
Freestyle sparring with an advanced student "Old Ghost". It was an exciting bout.
His Chinese 2 handed longsword was 52.25" overall length, 3 lbs 2 oz.
My sword was 46.3" overall length and 4 lbs 12 oz.

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http://youtu.be/dqFALhtL29s

Freestyle fencing with the customer who purchased the custom-made European hilt Miao Dao.

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http://youtu.be/nsxA9m5vKnw
Practicing with Tsz Him with his Chinese Jian from Jing Ding Club.

http://youtu.be/W6BksxEOX_Y
Freestyle sparring with Hoi Man from Jing Ding Club and her two handed straight dao.

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The snapshots show how I evaded some of the strikes just by inches.The red arrow marks the original target distance.






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http://youtu.be/xt7UOo3oZZU
Lancelot vs Keith, testing my new helmet too.

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http://youtu.be/jehSuim9Fgw
http://youtu.be/B-E2zvdm3qY
These 2 students showed significant improvement.

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We were out of luck during this practice session. The cam ran out of battery after 22nd round on the first part, missing the exciting round where Dung chop my head into two pieces with a single handed downward vertical cut at 25th round.

Then I switched to another cam, which despite my setting, still shoot the video in slow motion without any audio. :| So after I adjusted the speed back, it's still a silent footage on the second part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWYK0cZk2O8

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http://youtu.be/24MtjL59vxs
Yue has mastered the short defenses and attacks.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBEKBySOQ8w
Practicing with wife and her spear.

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We have a bunch of sparring videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMUtS78ZxryOQ0UQ1F0JCK2EesyjdnuH4

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