I once talked to a Viking reenactor who used an (two-handed) axe and he told that the most important thing was to keep the axe in constant motion, because if he lost momentum he was screwed. Without momentum that axe was too slow to do anything useful, or so I gathered, and thus he had to keep swinging the axe, keeping it perpetual motion and constant attack.
The best defense is a good offense, I suppose.
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