Roger Norling wrote:I'll see what I can do, but the problem is that I really don't have a proper idea when it comes to his Treibhauw and Kreutzhauw, at least nothing that gives you any quick and good motion back and forth, while still keeping your left foot forwards as Meyer advises. Unfortunately, as far as I know Meyer says nothing else about the footwork concerning the treiben.
Still, I know that the MFFG, Francesco and a few others have worked with this, so I am curious as to what they have come up with.
The basic steps I can see that can be used here, are the simple step and the gathering step followed by a simple step. The latter gives you a bit of better reach but it is awkward, not least since you mostly hold the halberd at the end, as opposed to the pollax/halberd of Talhoffer and Jeu de la Hache.
I'll try to practice it a bit and see if I can make it work and then I'll film it.
Good, I'd like to see it. You know, I find Meyer perplexing: The other German sources often seem easier to understand, frankly, even when they aren't as articulate. Maybe it's because we can use what Sydney Anglo called a "dossier approach" by comparing them to each other to make sense of technical terms, and Meyer seems to have added a bunch of technical terms no one else used (or used differently). Or, perhaps, it's just because I don't really study Meyer the same way I do the earlier sources. I don't know. But the bottom line is that reading him just drives me crazy.
