Timestamp: 40th of Winter, 517 AV
Continued From: The World Is Full Of Angles II
Continued From: The World Is Full Of Angles II
They finished their breather and Darvin launched back into his training lecture. He had one more important move to teach Kelski and then he was going to move on to throwing daggers. “The final move I want to teach you today, Kelski, is the Scissors Hold. If you can get this one down when you are fighting with daggers, it can save your life, even if you find yourself in a situation where you are not armed. I’ll teach you what to do when you are armed, but you can extrapolate when you are unarmed. You’re a smart girl.” He snickered, moving back a step and drawing his dagger.
“Now this one is easiest to pull off if an attacker stabs with an overhead strike from a forward stance. You can parry with your empty hand and guide his or her wrist in a right-hand twist into the dagger’s rising ‘hook’. Grab your daggers blade with your empty hand and lock in the triangle. Pull and circle to take him off balance and deeply cut his tendons by the wrist and then follow up with a strike.” He added, gesturing for her to attack him with an overhead strike.
Kelski stepped forward and just like that, Darvin was deflecting her dagger stab with a movement that twisted to the right. He locked his wrists around her, grabbed his blade, and dug it into her wrist deeply controlling her every motion. She saw how the move worked and how it would saw into her arm if his dagger had been remotely sharp. He might have even taken her entire hand off. He didn’t stop there though… during his demonstration, he dragged her cleanly to the floor by the momentum he got with the hold and lock.
He released her and she stepped back. “Again.” He said, and they moved through it only faster this time. This time he ‘jolted’ her in the scissor hold after he got the triangle lock in place and then released and quickly ‘stabbed’ her in the ribs. He made her do it again and this time he gave a quick pull once he had his blade locked around her wrist and it added a sort of whiplash effect which allowed him to use the huge opening it created to hit her directly over the heart with his blade.
Kelski was frozen.
Darvin called a halt and they switched places to practice it again. This time she was using it and he was taking the hold. They repeated the motions, moving through the steps, until she had it down and then he smiled. It was one of those strange knowing smiles he often had when he was going to tell her a secret. “Now, the Scissor Hold isn’t something you can rely on to take your opponent down or to always disable your opponent. Do you know why?” He asked carefully, pinning her with a hard gaze.
The Kelvic thought it through and shook her head, baffled. “No. I have no idea why. It looks brilliant, Darvin.” The Kelvic said, a little confidence in her voice now that she knew the move.
“Now this one is easiest to pull off if an attacker stabs with an overhead strike from a forward stance. You can parry with your empty hand and guide his or her wrist in a right-hand twist into the dagger’s rising ‘hook’. Grab your daggers blade with your empty hand and lock in the triangle. Pull and circle to take him off balance and deeply cut his tendons by the wrist and then follow up with a strike.” He added, gesturing for her to attack him with an overhead strike.
Kelski stepped forward and just like that, Darvin was deflecting her dagger stab with a movement that twisted to the right. He locked his wrists around her, grabbed his blade, and dug it into her wrist deeply controlling her every motion. She saw how the move worked and how it would saw into her arm if his dagger had been remotely sharp. He might have even taken her entire hand off. He didn’t stop there though… during his demonstration, he dragged her cleanly to the floor by the momentum he got with the hold and lock.
He released her and she stepped back. “Again.” He said, and they moved through it only faster this time. This time he ‘jolted’ her in the scissor hold after he got the triangle lock in place and then released and quickly ‘stabbed’ her in the ribs. He made her do it again and this time he gave a quick pull once he had his blade locked around her wrist and it added a sort of whiplash effect which allowed him to use the huge opening it created to hit her directly over the heart with his blade.
Kelski was frozen.
Darvin called a halt and they switched places to practice it again. This time she was using it and he was taking the hold. They repeated the motions, moving through the steps, until she had it down and then he smiled. It was one of those strange knowing smiles he often had when he was going to tell her a secret. “Now, the Scissor Hold isn’t something you can rely on to take your opponent down or to always disable your opponent. Do you know why?” He asked carefully, pinning her with a hard gaze.
The Kelvic thought it through and shook her head, baffled. “No. I have no idea why. It looks brilliant, Darvin.” The Kelvic said, a little confidence in her voice now that she knew the move.