| Practice in front of a mirror.
Assume a good guard position. Check your form in the mirror. Close your eyes. Extend and cut, return to guard. Open your eyes. Adjust your guard.
When you can close your eyes, extend, lunge and cut and recover; when you can close your eyes and go through the parries; then open your eyes to find yourself still in a good guard, you will have set the position in muscle memory.
Ideally, your wrist should be straight, neither cupped nor cocked. Your arm position will vary according you your style ( or your coach's wishes ), but IMO the forearm should be perfectly parallel to the ground, elbow about 1 fist's length from your hip and very slightly outside it.
Blade should angle across the body slightly, the tip should be at about the height and pointing approximately toward the opponent's head.
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Last edited by Inquartata; 07-26-2006 at 03:01 AM.
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