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Pay heed to Instantly, understand me rightly, hit him before he adopts his posture.

You shall understand this thus: when you are in the Onset, and he acts as if he will adopt a posture, [1.46r] then do no let him be in peace or come to it, but always attack first; and as he is choosing a posture, lay on at once to the nearest opening, and act as if you intended to cut strongly; but let it fail, or flit, and attack to another opening; then as soon as you have come halfway in or onto his sword with your blade, then do not be idle, but deliver a Thwart, or strike around, or wrench, or slice, or wind, or do whatever work may most properly come to hand for you.
"Everyone thinks differently from everyone else, so he behaves differently in combat"
-Joachim Meyer, Kunst des Fechten, 1570
"For as we are not all of a single nature, so we also cannot have a single style in combat,
yet all must nonetheless arise and be derived from a single basis."
-Joachim Meyer, Kunst des Fechten, 1570
"Who despises me and my praiseworthy craft, I'll hit on the head that it resounds in his heart."
--Augustin Staidt, Federfechter

"The Truth in Combat is different for each individual....
Truth lies outside of All Fixed Patterns."
-Bruce Lee
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