This is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to provide the lesson and answering my question! Putting all of what was said and shown together, yes, my concern for the constant foot and blade motion was mainly on the shuffle and frontal blade tip movement cause those are what I normally do. I definitely need to do a more “brain dead” kind of blade movement as my frontal blade tip movement is still extreme enough to be distracting to my own thought, and the shuffle has its own problem too. As you had said, it’s the variation in range that is the kind of movement you want to throw your opponent off on. The problem with that is most of the time my opponent came close to hitting me and I did a proper shuffle away from impact, my counter ends up missing them. That is not to say they shuffle back and I missed, they are literally in the position from their last attack and I go in for the opening, except I moved too far back for my blade to reach them, and I can’t move in without them hitting me at the same time. It’s hard to tell how far I have to move back or side ways because all of my striking range needed my opponent’s blade to be in an extremely close impact, so that is something I have to overcome as well. It’s good to at least know the specifics on the movement to do it right and what really constitutes as “constant” to properly maintain focus in the spar.
This is awesome! Thanks for taking the time to provide the lesson and answering my question! Putting all of what was said and shown together, yes, my concern for the constant foot and blade motion was mainly on the shuffle and frontal blade tip movement cause those are what I normally do. I definitely need to do a more “brain dead” kind of blade movement as my frontal blade tip movement is still extreme enough to be distracting to my own thought, and the shuffle has its own problem too. As you had said, it’s the variation in range that is the kind of movement you want to throw your opponent off on. The problem with that is most of the time my opponent came close to hitting me and I did a proper shuffle away from impact, my counter ends up missing them. That is not to say they shuffle back and I missed, they are literally in the position from their last attack and I go in for the opening, except I moved too far back for my blade to reach them, and I can’t move in without them hitting me at the same time. It’s hard to tell how far I have to move back or side ways because all of my striking range needed my opponent’s blade to be in an extremely close impact, so that is something I have to overcome as well. It’s good to at least know the specifics on the movement to do it right and what really constitutes as “constant” to properly maintain focus in the spar.