02-02-2018, 11:00 PM
Hecate nearly laughed at the prospect of someone considering her good enough to be able to train to a level of being the best.
"Please do not flatter me so, I could never consider myself that capable, I have but the standard Vesturan military education, I can use sword and spear with ease, though that does in now way make me a master in the way or the blade." She explained. " I can teach enough to give you a chance against any who crosses blades with you." She slid one blade into the scabbard on her back taking her long curved blade in both hands.
"Lets begin!" she said as she swung her blade before her horizontally left to right "There are eight directional attacks." she said as she reversed her blade bringing it back the same path it had traveled on the first swing. "For the sake of learning we will call these strikes, one and two" Hecate explained switching her strike to an overhead downward slash that would split a man down the middle. "Attacking each of the eight can kill." she said calmly reversing the strike on her imaginary target in a way that would split them from groin to head. "Three and four." she added before switching once more and going diagonally at her invisible target's neck. once more calling out a number to associate with the strike before reversing it the same as she had before. "Five and six" Finally she reversed the diagonal attack coming in from the right side. "Seven" she reversed her blade bringing it up along the same path once more. "Eight". she stopped for a moment stabbing her sword back into the ground once more. "Each of the eight strikes targets an important part of the body, One and two target the body, a cut to the midsection and your opponent's guts will spill to the floor." Her words had a dark chill to them even though Dark Hecate was not in charge of the body. " Three will kill your target outright, assuming that you are okay with allowing yourself to be open to counter attacks." she commented as she used empty hands to show how long it took to get an invisible sword up in position to swing it downward. "Four inflicts severe damage to major organs and blood vessels" she said opting not to say that it was also good for castrating someone.
"Five and seven cuts at the carotid artery, one of the largest supplies of blood to the head. Blocking a strike aimed at this area is potentially lethal as even a small cut from a sliding blade can cause catastrophic blood loss." Hecate explained, debating on whether she should demonstrate what she meant on a tree or something., opting not to. "Strikes six and eight strike at the legs, and can sever something called the femoral artery. Your target will bleed out fast if that is struck, nearly as fast as the other one." She explained.
"When attacking make every attack lethal, your opponent will do the same." She added.
"Swordplay is a life or death struggle, you cut or stab your opponent before they can do the same to you. It is no dance, nor is it intended to be something of beauty. Cut, cut true, cut deep, cut to the soul and deliver them into Meistra's cold grasp." She concluded
"Please do not flatter me so, I could never consider myself that capable, I have but the standard Vesturan military education, I can use sword and spear with ease, though that does in now way make me a master in the way or the blade." She explained. " I can teach enough to give you a chance against any who crosses blades with you." She slid one blade into the scabbard on her back taking her long curved blade in both hands.
"Lets begin!" she said as she swung her blade before her horizontally left to right "There are eight directional attacks." she said as she reversed her blade bringing it back the same path it had traveled on the first swing. "For the sake of learning we will call these strikes, one and two" Hecate explained switching her strike to an overhead downward slash that would split a man down the middle. "Attacking each of the eight can kill." she said calmly reversing the strike on her imaginary target in a way that would split them from groin to head. "Three and four." she added before switching once more and going diagonally at her invisible target's neck. once more calling out a number to associate with the strike before reversing it the same as she had before. "Five and six" Finally she reversed the diagonal attack coming in from the right side. "Seven" she reversed her blade bringing it up along the same path once more. "Eight". she stopped for a moment stabbing her sword back into the ground once more. "Each of the eight strikes targets an important part of the body, One and two target the body, a cut to the midsection and your opponent's guts will spill to the floor." Her words had a dark chill to them even though Dark Hecate was not in charge of the body. " Three will kill your target outright, assuming that you are okay with allowing yourself to be open to counter attacks." she commented as she used empty hands to show how long it took to get an invisible sword up in position to swing it downward. "Four inflicts severe damage to major organs and blood vessels" she said opting not to say that it was also good for castrating someone.
"Five and seven cuts at the carotid artery, one of the largest supplies of blood to the head. Blocking a strike aimed at this area is potentially lethal as even a small cut from a sliding blade can cause catastrophic blood loss." Hecate explained, debating on whether she should demonstrate what she meant on a tree or something., opting not to. "Strikes six and eight strike at the legs, and can sever something called the femoral artery. Your target will bleed out fast if that is struck, nearly as fast as the other one." She explained.
"When attacking make every attack lethal, your opponent will do the same." She added.
"Swordplay is a life or death struggle, you cut or stab your opponent before they can do the same to you. It is no dance, nor is it intended to be something of beauty. Cut, cut true, cut deep, cut to the soul and deliver them into Meistra's cold grasp." She concluded