Weekly update:
Well, I skipped last week due to more pressing matters, but I'm aiming for weekly.
I finished redoing the character's regular sword attacks, making several small tweaks to his positioning and sword handling. I believe them to be improvements but I'll leave that up to my testers. FrozenFire: there is a new demo up on the other forum if you want to check it out some time.
I'm still working on the full sword swing. It's presentable, but I'm not fully happy with it yet, so I'll be coming back to it at a later date.
And finally the dashing with sword in hand has been redone. I'm currently finishing up the details like the dust below his feet, the running sounds, ordening the coding and removing obsolete resources.
All in all nice progress, but none of it presentable. Maybe I'll work on the fire and/or icerod next. NotAlphaMan got me the needed sprites so it's possible. I'll have to see what I feel like tackling first. Since it's also quite gradifying to remove newly obsolete resources, knowing you've build something more solid.