Swords are really strange sometimes. They wobble. And this wobbling is much more than a small violent movement it appears to be on a photo.

While you can see them wobble like this, on a picture, I often feel it differently when actually holding the sword. Arms extended (not locked), the blades collide in a classic Zwerchau vs Oberhau contact, and at first, you feel like there are two diamond rods crashing into each other, not one giving under the force.

Then they bind, not just clash, they reach over each other and for a moment they exist as a singular, homogenous piece of steel, a moment one could call “Indes”. Then you feel the small give, and you push in for a thrust – or the small push, and you unwind to the other Zwerch, or, if the push is to hte side or downwards, to a Schielhau.

And than the world starts moving again.