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Not to mention that once you start a fancy move like a roll-and-rise-and-thrust, you're committed to it - and it's a multi-second move; and extremely predictable.
Your opponent, who's kept herself free, has time to sidestep, laugh at you, and swat your idiot bum with the flat of her blade. AND get into position to knock your blade out of line when you thrust.
A SKILLED warrior trains his or her body to know specific, short-term moves. It's not fancy (at first), but it'll keep you alive. If 'left block' is built into a reflexive action, then you can go into it the moment your peripheral vision sees an attack to the left.
Later, once your body knows each individual movement at the muscle-memory level, you can build up sequences. And a sequence can look like a single, very fancy move - but it isn't! The skilled warrior can break the sequence at any point in the sequence because of that - so he's not committed.
But including a multi-second gymnastic move into a sequence is showmanship, and suitable only for choreographed combat or stylised combat.
Your opponent, who's kept herself free, has time to sidestep, laugh at you, and swat your idiot bum with the flat of her blade. AND get into position to knock your blade out of line when you thrust.
A SKILLED warrior trains his or her body to know specific, short-term moves. It's not fancy (at first), but it'll keep you alive. If 'left block' is built into a reflexive action, then you can go into it the moment your peripheral vision sees an attack to the left.
Later, once your body knows each individual movement at the muscle-memory level, you can build up sequences. And a sequence can look like a single, very fancy move - but it isn't! The skilled warrior can break the sequence at any point in the sequence because of that - so he's not committed.
But including a multi-second gymnastic move into a sequence is showmanship, and suitable only for choreographed combat or stylised combat.
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