You can see right now I'm just here again with another camp edition of Training Hall. Wouldn't be too late again, it's Connor, one of our campers. So let's get to it. One of the things that often comes up in sabering is how this is like and how it is disliked things, more conventional swordplay and all that kind of thing. There are many many many differences as far as that goes, but one of the major differences is the lack of a guard. Now this is a dark dial that's here and it does have a little bit of a guard, a suba style but it's not a big cross guard or something like that with like in a long sword or something like that. So in order to, because of that, the hands become a very very easy target. And since we don't have generally a guard in front of our hand and even what we do, it's not necessarily huge. There's a couple of things that we have to do instead that will help us keep our hands in. And one of them is moving the hands around. So moving in positions like from guard to guard, just making sure that when you move, your hands are moving as well as your blade. If you stay right in the middle and just kind of do this, it tends to leave these open for attack a whole lot. So if we square off here and he's just standing here, I can pretty much hit his hands with impunity if he doesn't do anything. Now even if he just kind of swats my saver to the south, that can get him a little bit. But notice if he doesn't move his hands, I'm still right there. So what he's going to do is when he blocks or parries, he's going to parry and then raises his hands or move his hands somewhere to make them harder targets so that when I come down here and then go for his hands, they move. The same thing with me, he comes for my hands. And so a lot of the stuff you see is us kind of going for each other's hands, right? And that necessitates the skill of being able to move the saver, change the position, right? And essentially keep this moving. So a lot of the do-lion have very, very active blade work, lots of little flourishes and all that kind of stuff. And that's really the purpose of it. A lot of them come from Chinese swordplay, which also has a very minimal guard. Japanese swordplay has a minimal guard. There's a lot of things that have a minimal to no guard at all. And they usually accomplish the same thing, usually through positions, using blade work. If he comes in with an overhead striker, one thing I can sort of do with this guard here is stop it with my blade up in the here, in which case they're. Now that's a very common conventional sword technique because you get to your, even with a minimal guard, you can catch that blade, right, and lift it up. We can't do that usually in saver. He won't be able to do that. So if he goes straight up from mine, I come right down to his hands, right? So instead, what he has to do is as it comes in, he has to lift up and move those hands around so that nice. He can move his hands out of the way and try to get mine. And as you see, as it went through, we're trying to get each other to open up our hands and then we just reach out and touch it. Probably one of the highest percent of the strikes you're going to find in saver is that hand stroke. So very in kind with with Star Wars and Luke and Vader and all that, everybody likes, everybody gets, ends up losing their hands. Or head. So, there you go. Don't lose your hands. Don't lose your head. Always work gloves. Just so you know, we're just demonstrating here if you're doing this for practice, always work with your eye protection. But again, keep the hands moving. Keep the saver active and don't kind of park it in one spot because you end up becoming a sitting duck. So just a little bit of advice, a little training hall here. So thank you, Ian Tachyre. Thank you for all tuning in. So long from Light Sever Camp. Have a great week and happy savering.