If the Stop Thrust is not made in sufficient time to prevent the attack being delivered, the hit counts to the one making the attack.
A hit is counted good after a disarmament, if given immediately after and before there is time to think.
DRESS FOR SABRE PLAY.
Although the figures in the preceding illustrations are shown without masks or pads, no practice ought ever to be made without them. The following is the dress usually worn.
A flannel shirt and trousers, shoes with soles of buff leather, without heels.
A stout leather jacket, arm guard, leather apron, leg guard on right leg, and a pair of shoulder pads, shaped like a milkman’s yoke.
A strong helmet covered with leather on the top, with large ear guards, and the mask of strong wire with the meshes sufficiently small to prevent the point of the sabre passing through. A leather stock should also be worn round the neck.
When practising with sticks, the shoulder pad and arm guard may be dispensed with, and the hand ought to be protected with a buffalo hide hand guard.
Basket hilts are dangerous, as the point of the stick is apt to pass through them, and your hand may thereby be seriously injured.