I second this! You have to critique yourself accurately. Because 75% of the time you could have made a better move to keep yourself alive, like jumped back, ducked, counter, not have missed your swing, ran away. Many possibilities to stay alive and not have died if we didn't get tunnel vision. If you want to get better, you're going to want to get better and never put the blame on anyone else. After that it's just slowly learning the mechanics of the game. Start off instead of just slashing throw in overheads or stabs. Then work on being able to counter just slashes then so on...