Meyer’s Four Types of Fencers: How we conceive of them and ourselves
And the first are those who, as soon as they can reach the opponent in the Onset, at once cut and...
Read MorePosted by James Reilly | Oct 28, 2019 | Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research, Research articles |
And the first are those who, as soon as they can reach the opponent in the Onset, at once cut and...
Read MorePosted by Adam Franti | Oct 19, 2019 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research, Research articles |
There is a particular tension at play in the modern Historical European Martial Arts community...
Read MorePosted by James Reilly | Aug 12, 2018 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research, Research articles, Study, Study Articles, Techniques & interpretation |
Mark, this is that before all things you shall rightly undertake and understand these two things,...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Aug 5, 2015 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research articles, Study Articles |
Almost exactly a year ago I was lucky enough to be taken on a small journey that has been a long...
Read MorePosted by Keith Cotter-Reilly | Jun 26, 2015 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research articles, Study Articles, Techniques & interpretation |
This article shall group Joachim Meyer’s Ringen into collections of similar throws....
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | May 12, 2015 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Dusack, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research articles, Study Articles |
Here is a rough diagram that tries to explain the core mechanics that go through all of Meyers...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 27, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer longsword, Study Articles |
For practitioners of German longsword it is fairly commonly known that with some stances and cuts...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 21, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
This time I will speak rather briefly about stances and the ideas behind them. This does not...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Aug 1, 2014 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Research articles, Study Articles |
We all share the same love for our personal and shared discoveries of a forgotten European martial...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Jul 18, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
Although not originally planned to be included in this series, I decided to add an article on...
Read MorePosted by James Roberts | Feb 22, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer longsword, Research articles, Study Articles, Teaching & training methods, Techniques & interpretation |
Over the last five years, I’ve given several workshops in both South Africa and Europe focused on sequencing the teaching of techniques from Joachim Meyer’s “Gründtliche Beschreibung… der Kunst des Fechtens”[i]. In my view, each...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Feb 15, 2014 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
This week we will be taking advantage of one of the greatest benefits from reading somewhat later masters, like Joachim Meyer and George Silver, by looking closer at a subject that most early treatises speak little of;...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Dec 6, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
Throughout history going all the way back from at least medieval times up until modern military...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Nov 15, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
This week’s article will be talking about the topic of various ways of counterstriking...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Nov 8, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
This time we will start moving into somewhat more unexplored and unmapped territory, working with...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 25, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
Time for part 3 in the Onion Article Series, this time taking a closer look at the parts of the...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 18, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
Continuing with part 2 in the Onion series of articles we will now focus on the topic of...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Oct 10, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Dagger, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier, Study Articles |
For the last year or so I have been working on a group of primarily longsword exercises...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Mar 11, 2013 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer longsword, Teaching & training methods, Training exercises |
To begin with, just for clarification, this is not a typical article per se, but rather a text...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Feb 23, 2013 | Articles, Fencing Culture, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Research articles, Study Articles |
On this day, 443 years ago, Fechtmeister Joachim Meyer published his magnificent fencing treatise...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | May 2, 2012 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Study Articles, Techniques & interpretation, Training methods |
Here’s an old but still always relevant question for us HEMA practitioners to ask ourselves:...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Mar 21, 2012 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Meyer Rappier |
The Joachim Meyer fechtbuch named MS A.4°.2, a beautiful hand-written and...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Feb 26, 2012 | Articles, Meyer Articles, Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword, Study Articles, Techniques & interpretation, Training methods |
To understand the body mechanics involved in a technique we not only have to train our bodies so we are strong and agile enough, we also need to use tools that work together with our bodies in the appropriate manner. This may...
Read MorePosted by Roger Norling | Feb 5, 2012 | Meyer Halben Stangen, Meyer longsword |
Here are some very crude video clips we shot today of the strengthening exercises we have begun working with in the Meÿer Halben Stangen class at Gothenburg Historical Fencing School. Since they are relevant to longsword...
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