| First spoke is straight attack.
Three options for the other guy now - parry, counterattack or run away. The next spoke is parry riposte.
The first guy now has two options starting from the beginning - attack, get parried, counter parry riposte, and feint attack. Feint attack is the next spoke.
The second guy now has three options - counter attack, run away, try to parry riposte anyway, or attack in preparation. Attack in preparation is the right choice.
Now there are two options for the next spoke. You can go back to the top, turning your feint into the real attack, making your opponents attack in preparation a counterattack, or you do countertime, where you draw a counterattack and parry-riposte going forward, basically just taking the blade.
Ways to deal with the countertime are to run away instead of offereing a counterattack, or do a compound counterattack, called a feint in time, in which you deceive the countertime, your opponent can not take your blade and you hit him as he is searching. | 
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