Historical Martial Arts and Self-defense
Self-defense is a big thing in martial arts, because it sells better than ever. Everywhere self-proclaimed self-defense experts emerge. Hardly a …
Category Archives: Fighting
Explaining the German fencing terms by simple means of wrestling
Explaining the Liechtenauer five words and other German fencing terms is a very simple thing if you look at them …
Of buffaloes and peasants not knowing to feel the sword
Keith Farrell is one of my favorite author and sword companion especially if it comes to teach me the Scottish …
Talhoffer Dagger – Part 1 – Treiben zu den Blößen
The first plate of the Talhoffer dagger plays in the Munich manuscript, 1467 Cod. icon 394a, contains the main guards or …
Talhoffer Dagger – Part 2 – Versetzen und Auswinden
The first plate of the Talhoffer dagger plays in the Munich manuscript, 1467 Cod. icon 394a, contains the first play of …
A man wrote a fight-book. It’s incredible what happened 500 years later.
In the paper “Limits of Understanding in Historical European Martial Arts Studies” my friend Eric Burkhart introduced a variation of …
The “Halpschilt” – Halbschild (Half-Shield)
One of the most prominent terms in the book I.33 is the “halpshilt” or in modern German “Halbschild” translated as …
The danger of the attack – a translater’s problem
The sources we use to reconstruct the historical martial arts are written in a language that is not fully understandable …
On strikes in medieval German fight books
Q: Master Talhoffer, what is the trick to do a perfect strike? A: You strike without wanting to hit. Q: You …
The true meaning of “Vorschlag” and “Nachschlag”
The understanding of the terms “Vorschlag” and “Nachschlag” in the teaching of Johannes Liechtenauer is widely based on the interpretations …
