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Category Archives: Liechtenauer
Longsword – Cutting to the Ochs and Pflug
When examining the illustrations in Ringeck and other older manuscripts, I was told something to the effect of “if we used a zwerch like the illustrations, we’d be hitting with the flat”. While flat strikes do exist, they don’t look like … Continue reading
Longsword Guard Analysis – Low vom Tag
I’ve long been taught to avoid raising the right elbow while in low vom Tag, as that leads to the “samurai movie Tag”, as shown in this statue from Happy Mall. The main reason I was given for this was … Continue reading
Call for Videos: Ringeck, Danzing, and Dobrginer
The table of contents and templates are ready for indexing Liechtenauer longsword videos. Now comes the hard part, figuring out where each relevant video fits in the index and filming new videos to fill in the gaps. Sigmund Schining ain … Continue reading
Meyer’s Longsword – His Pedagogy for Tag and Defeating the Opening Zwerch
I am a firm believer in learning how to use a guard as a static posture before learning how to break it. My theory is that you should never linger in a guard if you don’t know how to deal … Continue reading
Meyer’s Take on Breaking vom Tag with the Zwerch
In the Liechtenauer glosses we often see this passage, The second is the Zwerch [thwart-cut], which breaks the guard vom Tag [from-the-roof]. This is one of the “vier versetzen” or “four displacements”. While the word displacement may mean parry, in … Continue reading
Posted in Liechtenauer, Longsword, Meyer's Longsword
Tagged provocation, tag, vier-versetzen, zwerch
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Having Trouble Entering the Bind? Then Stop Trying.
There is a reason I didn’t talk about binding, winding, fuhlen, slicing, and so forth in my last post. Those are advanced topics. Those are ways to break someone’s device or cutting pattern. And if you are a novice they … Continue reading
Indes in the Onset
Meyer’s cutting patterns are bookended with opening slashes and a concluding Zwerch to cut away safely. In the Onset when you come within a fathom [six feet?] of your opponent, then slash up from your right before him through his … Continue reading
Using Bolognese to Reinterpret the Kronhauw
What exactly is Kron? I thought it was pretty well established, but that question recently came up in a few forum discussions lately. This leads me to believe that there is actually a lot less certainty that I was lead … Continue reading
Posted in Arming Sword, Giovanni dall’Agocchie, Longsword, Marozzo, Meyer's Longsword, Ringeck
Tagged kronhauw guardia-di-testa
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The Counter to the Counter to the Scheitelhau
In Ringeck and Pseudo-Peter von Danzig have a technique for breaking Alber, the Fool’s guard using the Scheitelhau. There is some dispute about how to do it, but the counter to this is explicitly described as kron. The counter to … Continue reading
The Vier Versetzen are Counter-Guards, not Attacks
Many questions are running through my mind, posed both by myself and others. Why does the parting shot seem so dangerous against the suicidal fencer? Why throw a Zwerch against high vom Tag when a simple Zornhut is so much … Continue reading