Double Trouble

Requirements
Brisé

Short description
This is a feint of Brisé, followed by an actual Brisé.

Principle
This skill aims at provoking a parry without an impact (1st feint), and then to attack again while the opponent is lowering his parry. Technically, this could be done with any other attack. However the Brisé is the fastest attack available, and speed here is a key to success.

Strengths
A very polyvalent attack that can be used by itself to score, or to start building pressure on your opponent.

Weaknesses
Fast Brisé is very tricky to perform properly. A Brisé in itelf is rarely judged clean enough to score. Doing it after an effective feint is going to make it even harder to judge (see "Shadow Brisé").

How to use it?
There is one key to this skill : the timing. Your second attack must strike while the parry is going down. It implies that, like for all feints, you must put your focus on the opponent's reactions and adapt to them. If you launch your second attack too fast, the parry will stay up, and you won't be able to go through. If you launch your second attack too late, your opponent will have time to readjust and to react to it (like if the 1st feint didn't count). The best time to perform this attack is the very small interval that happens right after the feint has been detected as such. At this moment, your opponent focus and body tension will be very low because he just peaked right before. To make it optimum, you should then put a high intention behind your feint, and a low intention behind your second attack. It can translate by : Fast armé and fast development of the feint. Then, as soon as the opponents parry is in position (almost at it's top position), you can come back into a relaxed armé (not too slow, mind you), that will then gradually increase in speed so you do the second strike at full speed.

You will need to perform many Brisés and feints of Brisé in intermediary fight in order to get a feel for your opponent's timing.

Grinding this skill
On a technical point of view, you can use the same method as for the Pistol. What you need to repeat the most afterwards is the chaining of feint + attack while varying speed and intention. Practice vs a human target is very important, as you will need to get a feel for the timing, and for the level of intention to put behind each of your actions.