Thank you once again dear friend! Your tip is greatly appreciated! Well, I'm a karate player and I went recently to a seminar from a rinzai buddhist monk. It was interesting to know how the sword-technique used by samurai was a fine matter of distance..just a millimetre within the range of the katana and one of the two was starting the hit. That's also why their fights seem so static. No wonder that, with such a sharp way of fighting, knowing how to breath was vital ;-)