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 martial arts school that does not advertise - up to a 21-year-old, who after a few years of practice, sells an online course. It is a sad mirror of the Angst that is found in …

Mr. Talhoffer speaking?

I was and I am someone always fond of an exchange of written words since childhood. Being a virtual active person is nothing new for me. If you would put my real name in quotation marks in google you will find more than 200.000 entries that will mostly link to me. It has a history. …

Hans Talhoffer is not dead, he is only sleeping!

Today Facebook has deleted or disabled my account of Hans Talhoffer as an "Inauthentic account". It is against the rules of FB to impersonate someone. You must provide your real first name and last name. Impersonating anyone or anything is prohibited. So I knew that this would happen. Facebook is not interested on the data of nonexisting …