[Definitely not, though not having someone that could actually correct them until just now probably factored into it. He watches her carefully, moreso when she makes her swing. Was that all there was to it? If it was, he's definitely been doing this wrong. It wasn't like he didn't do okay the way he handled it, but seeing her do it gave him a sense that he'd been mishandling the various swords or makeshift ones he'd picked up. And pretty badly, too...
He goes over it in his head for a moment, then takes a deep breath, trying to follow Lucina's demonstration closely. He fumbles just a bit -- it was going to take some time to unlearn how he'd used it before, after all -- but he does make a stroke that didn't leave him a sitting duck.]
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He goes over it in his head for a moment, then takes a deep breath, trying to follow Lucina's demonstration closely. He fumbles just a bit -- it was going to take some time to unlearn how he'd used it before, after all -- but he does make a stroke that didn't leave him a sitting duck.]