Didn't help me much. The blood swipe slammed into my shield and sliced right through it. Deep gashes appeared on my legs, stomach, and chest. I waited until I healed.
Then I said, "What the hell was that?"
"Just keeping you on your toes," she said. "You didn't do the swirling effect and your shield was more of a flat circle than a sphere. Work on that."
I practiced my shield for 30 minutes and then said, "Hit me."
"Ok!" Shikasa threw out another blood swipe, just as huge and deadly as before.
But I was ready. I called up my shield and immediately applied the swirling effect. This time, when the blood swipe struck my shield it broke up, but just barely. I could feel my shield about to fail.