Notable Manuals

[Kevin T. Crisalli]

Can anyone tell me which manuals have the most information on unarmed skills? I'm familiar with the Petter Manuscript of course but I'm looking for things that are a little earlier. Fiore's work of course has a large section on unarmed skills, but other than that, what can people recommend ?

Kevin

[Stacy Clifford]

Here are a couple:

http://www.thearma.org/essays/WurmTandC.html

http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/Passchen/Passchen.htm

Of course we also have Petter available:

http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/Petter/petter.htm

[Jaron Bernstein]

Can anyone tell me which manuals have the most information on unarmed skills? I'm familiar with the Petter Manuscript of course but I'm looking for things that are a little earlier. Fiore's work of course has a large section on unarmed skills, but other than that, what can people recommend ?

Kevin

Meyer has a very good unarmed/dagger section. Fabian von Auerswald is a detailed grappling manual.

[Jeff Hansen]

Can anyone tell me which manuals have the most information on unarmed skills? I'm familiar with the Petter Manuscript of course but I'm looking for things that are a little earlier. Fiore's work of course has a large section on unarmed skills, but other than that, what can people recommend ?

Kevin

Codex Wallerstein has 87 plates of unarmed combat.

[Jay Vail]

Just about every manual we have shows unarmed combat. That includes the unarmed vs. the dagger, because those techniques are easily used against an unarmed opponent.

So we have, for instance,

Ringeck
Fiore
Codex Wallerstein
Auerswalk
Petter
Meyer
Marozzo
Talhoffer
Gladiatoria
Paulus Kal

That's just off the top of my head. Please don't flame me if I missed your favorite manual.

So, the manuals are full of this stuff, which forms a very rich technique base.

[Brian Hunt]

Just to add to the list, Paulus Hector Mair has a large grappling section.

Brian Hunt

[David_Knight]

Just to add to the list, Paulus Hector Mair has a large grappling section.

Indeed, and it's being translated with interpretations for both self-defense and MMA

[Tom Keesler]

Indeed, and it's being translated with interpretations for both self-defense and MMA :wink:

Looking forward to that with much anticipation, Mr. Knight.

[seneca savoie]

Which of these focus most strongly on takedowns and groundwork?

[Jaron Bernstein]

Which of these focus most strongly on takedowns and groundwork?

Fabien Von Auerswald, Hans Wurm and Nicholas Petter are pure (although Petter has a little knife material) grappling manuals. The other manuals are a mixture of weapons/unarmed. Petter is arguably among the best illustrated.

[nathan featherstone]

Indeed, and it's being translated with interpretations for both self-defense and MMA Wink

oh when can we see it i want it now
keep me posted on this im really looking forward to it.