Thirty-five Bottleneck
Unlike Koshiro who was a little disappointed, Cos was excited after wielding that knife. Although the enemy would not give him so long to think about how to wield a knife just now, at least now he is not so aimless when he shoots the knife.
Although the skill of swordsmanship on the skill panel was not unlocked, Cos was full of hope, because the sword allowed him to see his own progress and the possibility of his own learning of swordsmanship.
"Now you can barely hold the knife in your hand. Next, I will teach you some basic moves, but don't forget to feel the existence of the knife during the swing of the knife."
After pulling out a handful of bamboo swords used for practice, Koshiro came to the center of the dojo and set off.
So Cos also put the knife in the sheath and prepared to draw a bamboo knife to practice, but he was stopped by Koshiro.
"You can use a real knife, which will help you master the method of holding the knife."
"OK."
Cox had to pull out the knife that had just been retracted and came to Koshiro in the same position.
"Everything of swordsmanship is based on several basic moves. Even Zoro's child's three-sword flow is only derived from chopping, stabbing, and sniffing moves."
Koshiro demonstrated each movement of swordsmanship to Cox one by one. He asked Cox to imitate each move himself first and then correct it. He only started to teach the next movement after Cox could make the movement with a relatively standard.
In the following days, Cox's life was very regular every day. He woke up in the morning and started to wave his knife after washing up. After breakfast, he sat in a corner of the dojo meditated in the sound of the children practicing and felt the existence of Shangfang. According to Koshiro, he wanted to turn the sword into a part of his body. When the children had classes in the afternoon, he practiced alone in the backyard. When the children returned home, Koshiro gave Cox one-on-one guidance to the dojo.
It has been almost a week since he arrived at the Frost Moon Dojo. During this period, Cox has not improved on the panel except for the continuous sword swing practice, which has reached LV24 (136/250), and the sword skills have not been unlocked. However, only he himself knows that he has indeed improved in these days. Perhaps those somewhat rigid moves in the battle are of little use, but he can feel that he is indeed becoming more and more proficient in the use of swords.
After Coase's basic movements were basically not bad, Koshiro began the second stage of the course.
"You have already mastered the basic moves almost all, so the next step is to change the tricks on this basis. Because you will constantly change the techniques and body posture of holding the knife, you must hold the knife in your hand well."
As Koshiro said, at this stage, you need to practice larger and more complex movements such as sprinting, turning around and slashing, blocking attacks in one direction. Not only will the amount of exercise be greatly improved, but what is more difficult for Coase is to master the entire knife when various moves and sometimes the vision cannot see the blade.
Although Cos could barely learn as if he was decent at the beginning, he knew that when he swung the knife, he changed back to the initial situation of swinging the knife. When he swung the knife, he lost perception of the attack trajectory and range of the long sword in his hand, and he would also ignore the surrounding situation because he deliberately wanted to perceive the trajectory of the knife.
But with day after day practice and Koshiro's corrections from time to time, he slowly regained the state that could barely be considered "integration of man and knife" when swinging the knife.
After that, Cox's movements became more and more skillful, and under the guidance of Koshiro, all the moves were connected. The overall practice was quite decent.
However, the skill of swordsmanship on Coase's panel was still not unlocked, and Coase himself could feel that he seemed to be a little short of it, and he was still a little short of being able to wave the knife in his hand as he pleased.
Just like Pin Xixi is only 0.1 yuan away from withdrawing cash. Even if you know that this is sometimes actually "billion points", it still exudes this temptation that is hard to refuse, and you want to try your best to erase that little bit of gap.
Looking at Shangfang, who had been shiny after these days of maintenance, Cox's eyes gradually became crazy.
Just practice a few more times, just...
"oops!"
The sudden pain from the head interrupted Coase's thoughts.
——It turned out that Koshiro slashed his head with a palm upright.
When Koshiro saw Cox awake, he reminded him: "I can't be anxious. From now on, I will swing my knife and meditation as usual every morning, and reduce the time for practice moves in the afternoon in half."
In the next few days, Coase not only did not make any substantial progress on the panel, but even he could not feel the progress he had gradually become more skillful when swinging the knife.
Fortunately, Koshiro repeatedly reminded Cox not to worry and told him that his learning speed was already very fast, which allowed him to drink mai tea and take a nap in the afternoon every day without receiving positive feedback.
And this leisure without progress finally came to an end on the 18th day of Zoro's disappearance.
On that day, a child who was learning sword in the dojo rushed in and interrupted the two people who were about to start afternoon training after the nap.
"Zoro, Big Brother Zoro is back."
The child said angrily.
Koshiro's reaction to this was very calm. He just said lightly: "Oh, this time I've broken the record."
Coase was a little surprised, but he was not surprised that Zoro had lost his way for eighteen days. He was surprised that Zoro could find his way back.
"But Brother Zoro seems to have become a pirate. He is now bringing a group of pirates at the entrance of the village, as if asking everyone to hand over valuable things."
"ha?"
Koshiro looked at the child in confusion, and after confirming that he was neither lying nor joking, the confusion on his face became heavier.
He watched Zoro grow up, and naturally knew that Zoro would not become a pirate for no reason, and even if he became a pirate, he would not be the kind of low-level guy who only robbed.
"It should be a misunderstanding."
Koshiro made such judgment.
But since there are pirates, we cannot leave it alone, and we have to confirm what happened to Zoro himself, so Koshiro picked up a bamboo knife and left the temple.
"Kos, you..."
It was only halfway through his way that he remembered that maybe he should take Coase with him, but when he turned around, he found that Coase had already followed him with Shang Fang intent.
"That's right, after all, it's someone who pursues kendo, and seeking battle is almost an instinct."
Chapter completed!