Four Basic Drills Cross-handed
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Jump to navigationJump to searchThe Four Basic Drills are:
In their basic form they are shown right-handed scholar versus right handed scholar.
However many students are left-handed. For two left-handed scholars, simply mirror the drill. Things get more complicated when a left-hander and a right-hander are paired together. We call this "cross-handed". In this case, we have canonical forms of the basic drills. As a general rule, the defender's guard position and first action defines which drill is being done (this is of course entirely arbitrary). See:
