Lately, when practicing single-handed fencing or cuts, there is less and less an emphasis on isolated muscle use and more focus on the whole body being involved in the swing. Now I`m by no means static in any cut but I believe I was never drawing together the whole body but rather using my legs, torso and arm separately. A jump would be followed by torquing the body followed by the extension of the arm to cut but all in a very sequenced manner. Now to some people it would look like they flowed into one another. But between each of those motions lie huge gaps of time, vast distances of unused energy. I only know that I`ve been doing it wrong because of those rare moments when its feels like I cut from my feet. The tiniest jump is the strongest cut- that I can`t feel any pause in the transfer of motion or energy, from the first movement to tip of the sword ending its arc. Like every cell of my body is working together as a solid unit, all pushing towards that one goal.
Its depressing though to think how far that can carry. Whats to say that every move shouldn`t be like that. No wasted moves, no nervous or excited movements, every step devoted to the unification of the cut. It sounds too high-reaching, that thinking. But in times when Im exhausted after practice and I stop thinking so logically I swear, standing there loose and fluid, that one can achieve that state, where there are only the right moves and there are only the right cuts.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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