A category for everything not so serious, inspired by Monty Python’s phrase “And Now for Something Completely Different”.

Historical Martial Arts and Self-defense

August 4, 2017

Self-defense is a big thing in martial arts, because it sells better than ever. Everywhere self-proclaimed self-defense experts emerge. Hardly a …

A Fechtmeister for 50 Pfennige

November 28, 2016

In the year 1890 you could become a „Fechtmeister“ if you bring 20 members to the “Deutsche Generalfechtschule” in Baden-Baden. …

March 6, 2015

The following is a not so serious idea to apply the method of systems engineering and software development. There the functional …

July 29, 2014

Georg Paul Hönn was a very popular author in the 17th and 18th century his books on people cheating had …

January 18, 2012

I was and I am someone always fond of an exchange of written words since childhood. Being a virtual active …

August 30, 2011

Q: Master Talhoffer, is it true that long solo exercises akin to those of karate-do simply have no value whatsoever. A: No. Q: …

August 4, 2011

This was a funny event I did with my Hans Talhoffer FB account in July 2011. I was just bored …

July 25, 2011

Today Facebook has deleted or disabled my account of Hans Talhoffer as an “Inauthentic account”. It is against the rules of …