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From the sword to the body, reverse with it, twice, or slice on the weapon.

This is the correct gloss for the previous verses, which tells you to wind twice or slice on the weapon. Understand it thus:

When you slice from the sword onto his arms, you shall at once reverse. If he then escapes you upward, then you shall wind your pommel back out from under your arm; thus your sword turns back around.

To slice on the weapon is this: when the double reversing has failed you, then you shall chase twice, remaining with the slice on his arms. If he wards this off, then fall on his blade with the slice, and see that you do not let him come away without your advantage, but always chase him.

"Everyone thinks differently from everyone else, so he behaves differently in combat"
-Joachim Meyer, Kunst des Fechten, 1570
"For as we are not all of a single nature, so we also cannot have a single style in combat,
yet all must nonetheless arise and be derived from a single basis."
-Joachim Meyer, Kunst des Fechten, 1570
"Who despises me and my praiseworthy craft, I'll hit on the head that it resounds in his heart."
--Augustin Staidt, Federfechter

"The Truth in Combat is different for each individual....
Truth lies outside of All Fixed Patterns."
-Bruce Lee
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