Keotsu teaches Zero Kelvin Kenjutsu

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Again, I grip my sword tighly, but I still make sure to retain maximum flexibility with my hands and thereby also my sword. I raise my sword above my head while taking a normal stance, with my feet having a reasonable distance between them and my left foot being a bit in front of my right. As I feel ready to do so, I slash my sword downwards in a vertical angle, while leaning a bit forwards to give the sword more power.

Very good. ^_^

Now, we'll move on to something quite a bit different: lunges.

You can consider a lunge an advanced stab. Lunges have not only a lot more power behind them, but a greater range, due to the fact that you're leaning your body in to strike. Lunges are excellent combo finishers, or if you gather enough skill, combo openers.

They share a similar weakness in that if deflected, they leave you relatively open. However, like stabs, they can be recovered from fairly quickly if done correctly.

Lunges involve stepping forward while thrusting your blade forward as well, generally with you leaning forward in addition; lunges will be done primarily with one hand due to their form, though they can be preformed with two-hands: however, doing a lunge with two hands alters the form quite a bit.

Here's a video of lunging in modern sport fencing:

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Note that since this is battle training, and what the lady has preformed was a sport maneuver, we have a few differences: instead of flaring your arm out behind you, it will most likely be at a side-diagonal, in order for you to keep it in place for use; as well, you may lean past your ankles occasionally - though this weakens your stance, thus making it harder to recover from the stab quickly, it adds a bit more range to it.

Now, if you would, please preform a lunge, in detail.