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By using technique to learn principle, you get to the point where you don't need the list of techniques because acting on principle recreates them on its own, and thus you come full circle. Make sense? This makes a lot of sense to me. It shows the importance of learning the techniques not as an end...

While individual techniques are important, and show situational advantages, at ARMA we believe that all fighting is based on the simple principles like fulen, strong, weak, Vor, Nach, and Indes. Thank you all for the responding. What text/translation best lays out and explains the concepts listed a...

I am new to this site and it got me reading about WMA. I'm most of the way through "The Marial Arts of Renaissance Europe" and had a question some of the practitioners here could answer. Much of the swordplay from the historic manuals appear to show options of what to do in particular situ...