2010 meta & some butchering
Posted by Janka
There, we have a new theme. A bit late, because I managed to misplace the note to myself that I wanted to change over New Year.
I have a couple of ideas what to write about now that the CF stuff is over, but for a couple of weeks at least I think you will get random observations of life, if anything.
Stay tuned. Assuming someone still is tuned after that swordsmanship flood.
Re: swordsmanship, here's an observation for you all. (A total butchering of terminology follows. You have been warned.) With rapiers, you can always counterattack in seconda. After all, a scannatura is nothing much but a "semicircular parry" (to use smallsword terminology) and an attack in single-tempo. Hence, if he attacks on your outside, you can parry with your point high and riposte in single tempo normally ("counter-attack"); if he attacks on your inside, you can parry with your point low and riposte in a single tempo ("scannatura").
