Hey, dont worry it's good that you did a drawover. I see what you mean, I've actually been working on that old swing animation, and I should be able to show you in say, 40 minutes. I'll try and get that same swing timing as in that re-do video.
The motion looks better, but the sword still magically slices through the side of the dwarf when it goes from one pose to another. I think its missing a sadistic pause just before the main thrust. It looks like you could give the sword some distance from the dwarf by stretching and rotate the shoulder of the sword arm…