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The use of the striking German battle sword as found in many armories through out Germany still poses many unanswered questions. This article provides an overview over contemporary sources and proposes an approach to combine the information gained from those sources to determine possible techniques and principles for this weapon.
“Ey fåår Fächtare Krantz förn ändas Manlige Strijden. The Fighter shall not receive the...
The use of the striking German battle sword as found in many armories through out Germany still poses many unanswered questions. This article provides an overview over contemporary sources and proposes an approach to combine the information gained from those sources to determine possible techniques and principles for this weapon.
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Note to reader: This document complements an essay published on the blog Martial Culture in...
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When you first start reading the medieval fencing manuals, one of the curious things you keep...
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The procession arrives at the square. Publicans erects their tents and tap their barrels....
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And the first are those who, as soon as they can reach the opponent in the Onset, at once cut and...
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There is a particular tension at play in the modern Historical European Martial Arts community...
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“An average, foundational knowledge of the past helps us understand the 14th-16th c. Fechtschulen...
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A problem that we commonly encounter in the training and teaching of martial arts in general, is...
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Today’s community interview is with Maxime Chouinard who lives in Kingston, Ontario, Canada,...
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Mark, this is that before all things you shall rightly undertake and understand these two things,...
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At least as early as in the early 17th cent, fencing masters swore to care in particular for...
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To better help us all get an insight into the fantastic variety of this great community, and the...
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Over the years I have spent researching Late Medieval Central Europe, I ran across many unfamiliar...
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This article translates and contextualises the longsword bout detailed in Le tre giornate di...
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Ours are fighting systems that are under (re)construction. Those of us who consider themselves...
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Giovanni Alberto Cassani published a military treatise in Naples in 1603.1 In this work he...
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This article will present an analysis of Johann Georg Paschen’s (1628-1678) Kurtze iedoch...
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Dynamic parameters define a rigid body’s reaction to external forces. While their importance for a sword’s behaviour is known since the 19th century, many data sets of original swords, replicas and training weapons include mass and the centre of mass, but lack a third parameter such as moment of inertia, radius of gyration, or corresponding centres of oscillation/percussion. A third parameter, however, is required to calculate a rigid object’s response.
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Did you ever face the situation that you trained a technique over and over, again and again and it just straight out refuses to come out during free play? Then you know the frustration if expectations and results don’t match.
Failing time and time again, because you can’t pull of what you should be able to doesn’t feel nice. It can be devastating and lead the most dedicated of us down a path of frustration. It can be a reason why people quit HEMA altogether.
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In the mid-19th century, not that long after the Belgian war of independence, an experiment was...
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Proposition This article proposes that Francesco Novati’s 1902 facsimile reproduction of Flos...
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Last week, in the same spirit of information freedom that inspired Wiktenauer’s creation, I...
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Though long delayed, this book represents the most complete picture possible of the Liechtenauer tradition of foot combat as it was recorded in the mid 15th century. It’s the text I wanted for my students when I was leading a study group, and I’m happy to finally offer it in print. I hope it serves in some small way to advance the study of Johannes Liechtenauer’s art.
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While sounding like a simple thing to define, sparring can have quite a few and very different...
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Few men are born brave; many become so through care and force of discipline. – Flavius...
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This video was recorded by the MFFG at the 4th Meyer Symposium in Iowa, USA, 2016 and is yet...
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This video was recorded by the MFFG at the 4th Meyer Symposium in Iowa, USA, 2016. It is a small...
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King and Fool – The Vier Leger of Liechtenauer’s Tradition and their relationship with...
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Fighters Against Racism
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