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A challenge issued by John Clements, ARMA Director – our statement On Feb 7th 2010 Krzysztof Kruczyński officially resigned as the chief of ARMA-PL. His reasons are explained in an attached letter which is a direct translation of his post on ARMA-PL forum. This resignation was met with a respo...

Thanks, but transcription from Freifechter website will do. As to the Fechtschule rules - Matt Galas seems to have found Belgian rules, more info can be found at Swordforum: http://forums.swordforum.com/showthread.php?t=80863&highlight=belgian+guild Not actually German, but close enough. There's...

In Talhoffer 1467 starting with tafel 223 it clearly shows the off hand firmly placed at the small of the back, and In Hans Lecküchner 1482 the pictures show the fighters their hands behind their backs.. Once they get in close to grappling distance the off hand comes into play. CGM 582 is Hans Leck...

Hi CGM582 (Leckuchner) advises holding your off hand in front of your chest, if in-fighting is expected or planned. It's in the text (folio 2 recto), but not shown on illustrations. I think that later Messer/Dussack manuals are more and more influenced by sporting rules of Fechtschulen, where the us...

Hi My first post, so a little introduction: I'm a member of ARMA-Poland, and I've been working with other people on CGM 582 (polish translation and interpretation) for more than two years. Actually, those aren't exactly given as "show figting" - they're mostly "less-than-lethal" ...