Im Back

[big daddy]

Hello everybody im back my new name is big daddy . Im formerly known as big poppa.Im from the Northren Ohio division where we sometimes really fence but infight all the times. With the number of "beefs" we have up here we should be rap stars but, what teh heck it's good to be back.
That being said one of my best students has a bad habit of staying in her lunge too long. She is being hit a lot with repostes and taken over attacks. I don't know how to cure this problem . on the good side this is a rather new thing. My first soulution was to have her lunge over and over until the idea sinks in but this might reenforcing a bad habit rather than cure it . Anyone have some ideas?

[FoilyGeezer]

1) Have her shorten her lunge. It sounds like she's getting stuck down there.

2) Have her work on stepping back to parry....Always!!! Have her work on recovering forward and renewing the attack when the opponent fails to parry.

3) If you're doing private lessons, drill her exclusively on second and third intention exchanges for a while. Stipulate that only one intention can be from a lunge position. In other words she can lunge but she has to move immediately afterwards.

[MikeHarm]

I found it easier to recover faster once I started doing false attacks w/ short lunges to draw my opponents into trying to reach for my blade as a countertime action. Before that I was so focused on the attack it was like my brain took a second to switch gears after I realized my attack failed delaying my recovering. Getting used to doing the lunge as preparation intending to recover helped a lot.

[big daddy]

good call Mike thats what it looks like to me . her brain is so focused on the lunge it takes her a second to relize it's failed. Oh by the way I ran into Ann Marsh at the Jo's . Makes me feel kinda old to see her all grown up