Mair’s Second Sickle Play
2. A Lower and a Higher Cut
In mutual approach, if you prepare yourself athletically for competition, remember to hold your right foot forward, and hold the grain sickle against your foe, in your right hand. Indeed, you establish the left under the right arm, from there you concede inward with the left foot, and from a lower position you attack by cutting to the right arm of the foe. But if, however, you shall have placed the right foot against him in the same way, and you hold the sickle in your right hand in the habit of cutting in from above, indeed with the left under the right arm, you repel his attempt at your turned left side with your sickle, meanwhile, your enemy’s right hand having been grabbed with your left, from the left side of the enemy you cut forth at his neck with the sickle. Indeed, if he similarly advances on you from above, with the left hand held back, you apprehend his right hand, and if you avert his attempt on your left side, draw the sickle all the way down his left arm, and from there concede backward. But if your enemy shall have receded, pursue your foe with a twin step in order to crowd in, and cut forth at his head.
