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 mean to strike without wanting to hurt somebody? A: No, you just strike, hitting is no matter Q: But if he strikes at me too. What is than to do? A: You strike, the opponen'ts …

Functional Specification of Liechtenauer’s Strikes

The following is a not so serious idea to apply the method of systems engineering and software development. There the functional specification is the documentation that describes the requested behavior of an engineering system. Using that method we can define what the user wants from a system and how it should be functionally implemented. Document objectives …

GMN 3227A 28v Schielhau (transcribed, translated)

I tried to translate the transcription not too literal. That makes the reading of some lines easier while it safes as much from the original intention as possible. If you like to compare the transcription with another one, have a look at the work of Dierk Hagedorn. In the translation to modern German and English …