Folke was inside his tent again. He sat on the bed cross legged he was currently attempting to organize his thoughts and notes from the previous lecture he had received from sworn and scar on how to fight with an ax.
The entire topic interested him, the more he thought about it. The more he realized that the weapons followed some basic principals at least. Blocking was similar and so was attacking. Look for the openings within your persons guard set up traps with your known weakness.
Make your attacks initiate a reaction and then continue forward with a followup to abuse that not shown weakness. Retain the inative with a counter attack. The sword and shield, the longsword, and the ax in some ways show this.
Sword and shield strikes and that first strike is not a sure kill at all it reveals their opening at this point and then they follow it up, same with longsword a quick strike to the first side and then following up is a kill. The ax today that he learned, he didn't learn about striking first and following it up but scar surely taught him that.
Scar initiated the strike with a thrust to get into his guard and then followed it up with an assured strike. Scar also did strike him in the first initial combat but that was because Folke was just getting ready.
`Then the counterattacks, every counter attack that was used can be stopped if the person is ready for it. Just like with Bo but counter attacks are the safest way to strike someone without putting any risk on yourself.` Folke continued to ponder this ` If I'm able to put myself out of harm's reach while also inflicting damage to my opponent I'll be okay. But to do that I'll have to first get into danger and risk being hurt.`
Folke was attempting to learn the basics of all martial arts `But i guess it also depends on the person and the weapon that they have. Bo charged forward recklessly at times and other times he waited for me because of his arrogance.`
` Scar he's more gentle with the way he handles the sword and ax, He strikes only when he sees an opening without revealing any major weaknesses. `
`Goldrig, well. . .` Folke started to think back when he saw goldrig fight the wolves but each time he did he couldn't quite see how goldrig moved the sword at all but the way goldrig moved. ..
`Goldrig's sword is fast and his speed is unusual and yet still gives him speed.` That was the only thing he concluded from his observations on goldrig.
`Sworn on the other hand it feels like he's never gonna be scared of getting hit. Even when Scar's ax almost touched his shoulder he didn't flinch at all.`
`So what do I do?`
Folke could only think back to the times he fought Scar, and Bo. `I copied their attacks…`
He then concluded this `It's too early for me to think of this yet.` He nodded his head and laid his head on the small pillow in his room.
He closed his eyes and opened them once more to be greeted with the gorgeous sight of the flowery realm. The many flowers and the petals flowing in the air like a beautiful butterfly made him calm and his mind became more clear.
`This place does a very good job on mental state, I'm lucky I can have some place where I can rest my mind and body.` He began to meditate within the flowery realm.
Unknown to folke within the flowery realm his body released a slight steam into the air, and his muscles began to repair at a faster rate. His body mass also began to decrease significantly at a visible rate.
Folke stopped meditating he couldn't view these changes on the outside of his body and his form inside of this flowery realm never really changed either so he summoned an ax into his hands and began to do his sparring lessons with Scar.
Scar never spoke but each strike that he delivered folke studied. Folke also began to pause their fights more to actually observe what scar was doing with his hands and footwork. He attempted to copy these movements but was always outclassed in some way shape or form.
One time in particular, Scar charged forward with the ax raised. Folke attempted to deliver a thrust while shifting his foot to the side to get prepared to move if need be.
But then he saw Scar disappear from vision and go under the ax, he wrapped both of his arms under Folke's back thigh and lifted him up into the air and slammed Folke's back on the ground first. He then got up seeing that folke was dazed and placed the handle on folke's chest to pin him to the ground.
`What did he just do?` Scar was a big fellow and seeing him just disappear really put folke in a loop, he wanted to rewind the events so he could see them again but he knew he couldn't go as far as to reverse time `But I can ask him to perform that move again.`
He'd got up after the emotionless scar released his pin after a simple order from Folke. Folke asked scar to perform the movement again and he did so without any troubles. He then saw Scar just drop to the ground with the ax in one hand. `Is that really what he did?`
Scar made it look so simple, but then Folke's mind started to race how that move could be countered `Actually...That move is pretty easily countered. If I just moved back while delivering the thrust I would've most likely had time to react. ..`