then. jump up at once beside him, and you will often be in time to get an easy volley and kill him "with the second barrel". if he knows you are there ready to destroy him, you will often frighten him into missing or making a bad stroke.
1.get it up; anything is better than missing it.
2.the easiest way of getting very hard-hit first cuts is to hit hard at them with the right hand. if you only hit quickly enough they are easy. if you let them get too close to you or to your left hand they are difficult.
3.remember that anything that comes to your left hand will go 