Hello!
I have recently found a few different modern individuals on the Web who sport the historical title *Fechtmeister*.
I would like to point out how wrong it is to designate oneself as such, for these reasons:
1) Nowadays there is no living school, noble or army which has the right to assign said title by virtue of unbroken tradition and/or current demonstration of martial validity upon a battlefield or judicial yard.
2) None of these persons can claim any right to entitle himself as such by virtue of experience at actual and earnest Medieval or Renaissance combat to the death.
3) To do so notwithstanding the previous two reasons is an insult to the real Fechtmeister of the past and a fraud to modern beginners looking for an authority to guide them.
What I stated is what I think. The philosophy of ARMA would more or less seem to concur. Although I personally would consider a few men deserving of that title, said men shun those titles, probably for the reasons I stated.
Simply put, I think that no man today should be calling himself Fechtmeister.
JH
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