The Workbench The Straight Lead Punch: Lineage The straight lead punch was not invented. It was recovered, independently, by every practitioner who committed to linear offensive mechanics under real pressure, across four centuries and three continents of Western fencing.
The Workbench The Straight Lead Punch: Force, Structure, and Timing The straight lead punch looks simple. One hand. One line. Direct. Simplicity without understanding is ignorance. What appears as a single motion is a chain of precise mechanical events, each one depending on the one before it.