I was liking your run cycle, it had a lot of character and bounce. The sword swing is just so flat and generic though. Right now he is just swing in a straight line down, maybe try to add some left to right motion. So instead of up to down, it is more of his top left to his bottom right. That could be is standing attack, if the guy is running and attacking then he should do a lung or something different.
Also, I have no idea what your game play plans are. But since you already have the character in different amounts of armor you could get rid of the health bar and just have him loose armor each time he is hit. It is a bit of a rip from Ghosts n Goblins, but health bars are stupid.