u/stettner

Private lessons in HEMA are still underrated. They are not as fun as sparring, but the experience you get is much more condensed. It's not even easy for the coach to prepare such a lesson, and it's also quite demanding. But in sparring, you keep repeating the same mistakes again and again unnoticed. In a private lesson, the coach exposes many of those, even subtle errors, and lets the student correct them himself without telling him exactly what to do. (Sometimes he corrects them precisely when the student is clueless :))