I have been working on a concept that seems to help during
sparring when in the bind and seems to help with some winding while there.
How often do we see two opponents come into the bind strongly
and their guards go upward almost into a kron position? It seems that if two
combatants are driving forward and their swords bind strongly, their weapons have
to be deflected somewhere perpendicular to the forces. Often this is upward.
If you move through the positions of right ochs, right
pflug, left pflug, and left ochs you will see that your guard moves in a circle
while your points stay fairly stationary. This creates cone. All of the points
on the base of that cone lie on a line perpendicular to the forces between two
people in a strong bind.
When you bind strongly, the combined hilts are going to move
to a point on the base of the cone. All the strikes done during winding come
from those positions. I do not refer here to changing under or take offs. We
should drill controlling where the blades go on that line.
If they go directly upward, you can do crown strikes or
techniques from crown such as running through. If you control the deflection to
your left, either by pushing that way with your arms or stepping to the right,
you come to left ochs and the first winding or a zwerchau. If you deflect it
the others way, by hand or foot as before, you can perform the second winding
or a doubling by zwerchau.
If the force deflects more horizontally, you can come to
pflug positions. To the left gives a shielhau or a thrust and to the right
another doubling, this time with the long edge.
You can control which point the blades move to with straight
arms and a good frame coupled with footwork and good body mechanics.
I will post more and I clear up my thoughts better on the
subject.
