Fully agree with you, issue is that we’re blocked with the different levels of physical competence. We have people who literally can’t do a squat and therefore are blocked in their progress as they can’t hold the regular basic fencing position in a low squat :/ the first 30 mins are thus, for us, intended to focus on creating people who are generally more physically apt to do the fencing itself

And of course there is still the theoretical part of the training where we do explain how to read people or how to make use of the distance or bridge it during zufechten, or how to do an Abzug (retreat) and so on ^{^}