does any one heard about parry 9 before???

[Christopher J Umbs]

I've always heard of parry 9 being 'parry with the feet' - breaking distance like Cob's Transverse

[oso97]

The lifting parry that moves the blade upwards, done with a duck. Wasn't that an Aldo Nadi favorite?

You know, I've always thought that the inverse of it 10, where it moves the blade downwards with a jump might work for a killer sabre move. The whole no off targets weapon can't go off in the leg zone aspect of todays sabre seems like it would play to that working. At least I think thats a 10 parry.. I don't seem to see it in any of the books I've been reading.

I generally teach this as a variant of 2 in sabre. And you're right, it works great, particularly against point attacks and PIL's.

[HilandDoug]

Chris, I've heard the same referred to as a "zero" parry, but I think that may have been in jest. As in, "Don't parry, retreat!"