Never Get Over Confident with Your Sword Techniques

Always step into a sword fight with a great deal of confidence. But no matter what always keep a level-head before, during, and after the sword fight. Never get excited or over confident, during a sword fight. Your elbows should never be stretched, but bent towards your body. The

sword is the one that needs to be extended in the direction of your opponent and not the your arms.

If the sword you have is long, then you need to maintain a greater distance away from your opponent. if your sword has a short blade, you need to stay close to your opponent.

You need to stand perpendicular, with the sword pointed directly at your opponent. This will make sure that a limited part of your body is facing your opponent with a less likely chance of getting sliced.

Skilled and Focused Sword Techniques

You will need to keep sufficient distance between your feet and keep track of your opponent and the moves he/she has made adn are making. When you parry, the postion of the blade should be closer to the your body for self defense. The main point while you are defending, should be to

always keep looking for the opportunity to counter your opponents attacks.

Make good judgment of the changing conditions. A skilled and focused swordsman will quickly analyze all the weak and strong points of thier opponent. They will then make a quick assessment of thier surroundings with respect to all related factors in the initial stage of the sword fights. The great difference between two sword fighters are not based on their skill and expertize alone, but on how well they can read the other sword fighter and thier surrounding conditions, as they are sword fighting.

Sword Techniques and Parries

Here are some of the Sword Fighting techniques and Parries;

Draw your sword and be prepared for the actual fight well ahead of time. Drawing a sword quickly from the scabbard, gives you a crucial edge over your opponent.

Take a few deep breaths and try to maintain a relaxed posture to make the best out of your counter moves. You will have to make quick decisions in a sword fight.

When you stay calm in a nervous situation it can make all the difference between either winning or losing the fight.

Always make sure your body is properly positioned and balanced at all times during the fight. This will let you make the most powerful moves as well as greatly defending yourself and your honor.

Warriors learned these sword techniques

Now in ancient Rome, a sword fight and the related weapons was known to be used by the army and the gladiators. The Gladius, or (as we call it today) the sword, used by the gladiators, was very much shorter than the ones the army used in battle.

However, both of these types of warriors learned these techniques with a wooden sword first, then they would make the transition as needed to the more sharpened steel swords. It is a know fact, this made them more focused at learning the skillful moves they needed to have.

Ancient history shows that, the German, Italian and Spanish sword arts of swordsmanship grew a great deal during both the medieval and renaissance periods. The swordsmanship in ancient China was not altogether secretive, but had a very great part in the martial arts side of things.

We find that in ancient Japan, the sword arts of Kendo progressed into a very popular sport and to this day is still practiced. However, the swordsmanship in our modern days is more popular as fencing, which now is a great part of modern sports.