-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Armor (4)
- Arts (1)
- Broadsword (2)
- Crafts (39)
- Backsmithing (7)
- Coppersmithing (2)
- Fencing (510)
- Angelo Viggiani (2)
- Bolognese-Dardi Tradition (107)
- Anonimo Bolognese (1)
- Antonio Manciolino (44)
- Giovanni dall’Agocchie (19)
- Marozzo (47)
- Books (5)
- Camillo Agrippa (16)
- Capoferro (13)
- Codex Wallerstein (14)
- Corbesier (1)
- Diogo Gomes de Figueyredo (1)
- Doebringer (2)
- Domenico Angelo (1)
- Drills (2)
- Fabris (41)
- Fechtkunst (5)
- Filippo Vadi (12)
- Fiore de Liberi (17)
- Francesco Alfieri (2)
- George Silver (3)
- Giacomo di Grassi (1)
- Giganti (1)
- Henry de Sainct-Didier (1)
- HS 3227a (2)
- Jakob Sutor (2)
- Jobst of Württemberg (1)
- Johannes Georgius Bruchius (1)
- Johannes Lecküchner (1)
- Joseph Swetnam (1)
- L'Ange (24)
- Liechtenauer (20)
- Ringeck (14)
- Liechtenawers (1)
- Meyer (145)
- Meyer's Dagger (7)
- Meyer's Dussack (6)
- Meyer's Halberd (1)
- Meyer's Longsword (97)
- Meyer's Pike (1)
- Meyer's Rapier (17)
- MS I.33 (15)
- Paulus Hector Mair (17)
- Peter Falkner (1)
- Spanish (1)
- Talhoffer (10)
- Thibault (8)
- Tobler (4)
- Viking (2)
- Goliath (1)
- History (4)
- Period Clothing (1)
- Tournaments (2)
- Uncategorized (18)
- Weapons (475)
- Arming Sword (128)
- Sword Alone (6)
- Sword and Buckler (66)
- Sword and Large Buckler (4)
- Sword and Shield (6)
- Sword and Targe (1)
- Two Swords (1)
- Dagger (14)
- Dusak (10)
- Greatsword (14)
- Longsword (202)
- Messer (2)
- Polearm (17)
- Pratice Equipment (1)
- Quarterstaff (3)
- Rapier (98)
- Small Sword (2)
- Weapon Design (33)
- Wrestling (6)
- Arming Sword (128)
Meta
Scholars of Alcala
Sites
Archives
- October 2020
- February 2020
- December 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- March 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- May 2018
- July 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- June 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- May 2010
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- December 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
Tag Archives: footwork
Meyer: Rethinking Footwork
In longsword chapter 10, there’s an exercise informally known as Meyer’s Cross. (Or “Meyer’s Square” for those people who don’t know what a square looks like.) The default footwork for this is alternating passing steps to the left and right. … Continue reading
Fabris and the Paradox of the Step
The master dall’Agocchie famously wrote about about the five tempi for attack. The last concerns movement of the foot, The fifth and last, when the enemy is fixed in guard, and he raises or moves his forward foot in order … Continue reading
Manciolino’s Sword and Buckler – Second Attack from Porta di Ferro Stretta
The second attack from Porta di Ferro Stretta seems pretty simple at first glance, but hides some pretty important concepts. step forward with your left foot extending a thrust2 to the face, and then pass forward with your right foot, … Continue reading
Crossing your feet from Agrippa’s Seconda
Though it is often said that we should never cross our feet, there will be times when the manuals specifically tell us to. Here is one example from Agrippa.
On Footwork
A medieval child learns to spar from the day he can pick up a stick. He needs no instructor or manual to learn how his body works. If I’ve learned anything in the last decade it is that one can’t … Continue reading
Interpreting Fiore – The Distance Between the Feet is Important or The Swords were Long
In an article titled Size Matters, Guy Windsor agues that the length of the sword is important for the correct execution of the Fiore’s plays. He demonstrates that he cannot reach his opponent to enact the sword grab. Here is … Continue reading
Interpreting Fiore – Where are the Feet?
Here we see the master stepping narrow. He lifts up his back heal to better absorb the shock. His opponent has stepped wide to the right. See how both are turned slightly towards his left, especially the lead foot. This … Continue reading
Practice Notes: Scheitelhau, the Parting Strike, with Broken Steps
Scheitelhau, or the Parting Cut, is the last of the five Master Cuts. Like the other master cuts it begins with the Zornhau, which the ancients call the Father Stroke. And like any other cut, it it to be performed … Continue reading
Giovanni dall’Agocchie – Footwork
In dall’Agocchie’s system there is a default set of movements that need to be internalized. In the heat of battle, when there is no time to think, this is what you fall back on. Right Foot Forward If you wish … Continue reading
Footwork Diagrams for Marozzo’s Sword and Buckler, Assault 1 Part 1
Guards · Coda lunga e larga · Guardia di testa · Guardia alta · Coda lunga e distesa · Coda lunga e stretta · Porta di ferro stretta The Assault Start: Now I will begin the first assault of the … Continue reading