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I would be *very* surprised, if you were to find such a thing. We have a microfiche/microfilm copy somewhere that I used to transcribe parts of the fencing treatise for our research back in 2005. All in all, it is not the easiest thing to read and different parts were written by different people, fo...

It seems to me that this might be the situation where it pays off to have studied Zufechten, Krieg and Abzug , eh? If you hit him and you have the initiative, keep attacking. The masters say so. If you deal a second blow and you sense that he can hit you before it will land, you have lost the initia...

"You're looking for the fencing master? Check the tavern, he's the guy with one eye, seven fingers and missing teeth." :wink: Other than that, I find that any regular bruises you get from training aren't exactly "typical fencing marks". From my experience in the military, camping...

I currently use a Moc Violet longsword. It's seen one or two training sessions per week since 2003 and is holding up just fine. So quality-wise, Moc is good, if you ask me. Back then, Albion wasn't available to us. The Violet (at least the "edition" I have) is quite well balanced. These da...

Part of that is in the books. Check, for example, Peter von Danzig's writings on the Zornhau-Ort Complex. Other than that, from my experience, the charts you want to draw up are a great learing tool - for the student drawing them! By writing the stuff down, you are foreced to think things through an...

The longsword treatises in the Liechtenauer lineage that I personally know all follow Plan A: beating the s**t out of the opponent. Hit first, hit hard, don't stop hitting until he's dead. Really simple. Now, the manuals are written for people who can already fence (that is, beat the s**t out of oth...

You can deliver the damage with either a cut (Hau), a thrust (Stich) or a slice (Schnitt). This goes for all the techniques/devices, by the way. Any one of them can be completed with either of the three wounders (Wunder). If you go for the cut, the power comes a) from the primary cut, which you don'...

I was at the site about two hours after it happened. The whole building disappeared into the ground. I do not know whether the two fencing treatises (W*150 and W289) were in the main complex that collapsed. It is likely, however. If they were, they have to be considered lost to us, as even *if* they...

The situation (described by Meyer) is such that you have an opponent who is overpowering you with "quick devices" and is driving you back. Anything but poor skill or cloddish blows. Quite the opposite. You are then (in a situation where you are in the Nach) advised to stay in the bind and ...

I don't know Meyer that good but my understanding is that Meyer's HangingPoint guard, like his Key guard, is an variation of Ochs. Key is just an Ochs that has been lowered and HangingPoint is just an Ochs that has been moved somewhat over the head. In the quote you provided it is clear that Meyer ...

Just for the record, I provided that info, as well. Second paragraph of the "Slicing" description. From my experience, that part of the weapon is dull.

There are two different Handarbeiten (Handworks/Devices) in Meyer's treatise dealing with slices, translation by J. L. Forgeng): Slicing [Schneiden] 1.18r (p.62 in Forgeng's transation) "This is also one of the true core techniques in the handwork; for when your opponent rushes upon you with qu...

I think one good example might be the eighth technique in this video [url] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5FIyfI8TA&feature=PlayList&p=B7CBFAA8FC5F300F&playnext=1&index=5 [/url] I could see this doing serious damage with a sharpened blade. Yes! Perfect! It's not from below, but it...

Ryan, at one of our group's annual training camps, we test-cut a pork shoulder, which we later roasted. The meat was fresh and this was not my first cutting excercise, although the first on a substantial biological target. I did three Zornhäue (diagonal descending cuts) from my right. One cut throug...

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