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 …
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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 …
Andre Paurnfeind – a Freifechter, fencing master, and personal guard
Little is told by the current state of research about the author of of the first known printed book explaining Liechtenauer’s …
A Fechtmeister for 50 Pfennige
In the year 1890 you could become a „Fechtmeister“ if you bring 20 members to the “Deutsche Generalfechtschule” in Baden-Baden. …
1435 February 2nd – Talhoffer’s second letter to Erhard Haller
The following is a transcription of letter of Hans Talhoffer to the knight Erhard Haller in Nürnberg. It is part of …
1434 March 23th – Talhoffer’s first letter to Erhard Haller
The following is a transcription of letter of Hans Talhoffer to the knight Erhard Haller in Nürnberg. It is part of …
