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Parkyns treatise on Cornish Wrestling from 1713 has a section at the end on boxing...specifically the wrestling techniques that can be applied, including a choke, neck crank and arm wrench. http://neohemas.wordpress.com/library/the-inn-play-or-cornish-hugg-wrestler-by-sir-thomas-parkyns-of-bunny-bar...

Hey guys, Recently gotten into studying classical pugilism, and it's more similar to kampfringen and farther removed from modern boxing than most people realize. You don't see many combinations of more than two or three techniques in the old style for a couple of reasons. Gloves have already been me...

I shovelglove! I do it mostly as a finisher to my weight workouts for contitioning. I do most of the moves listed on the shovelglove site, and a few others I've found from clubbell or macebell sources...or I'll just go out and beat on something with the hammer. Matt Furey's "Royal Court" (...

Quick update, going with my first interpretation after finding a plate that looks similar in Durer. Quickly noticing that although the plates in Mair and Auerswald match up, the tecniques being described don't always. It's great when Mair extends the play, adding counters and counter-counters, but n...

Scratch that. What if the plate shows the directions reversed? in which case , you grab the opponent's right arm with your right and as you step in, raising your elbow and pulling the opponent's arm downward to wrench his right arm over your right arm, possibly while using your left to control his.

Have you ever read "Hand to Hand Combat" by Keith Myers? It was made before many of the manuals were translated, so in that sense it is somewhat dated, but is very comprehensive. You can download it online. That book has been a great help with a lot of this stuff. Ok, as for the arm break...

sure! I'd be interested in seeing what you have on plates 8-9, 23, and which other technique in your estimation is being set up by manipulating the thumb in plate 34? I'm sort of making it a pet project to produce an edition with some sort of logical organization in the order of the plates, listing ...

Hi everyone, new here and getting my feet wet in Ringen. I've started working through Auerswald with James Klock's translation, and some of the wording can be a bit ambiguous. It's a great resource, but it seems like his first priority is staying as literal as possible with the German translation. D...