Windthauw

Wind/wound Strike

A composite strike which combines an unterhauw wound back down into a slice back down on the opposite diagonal. This strike uses a form of “setting aside” (absetzen) and involves “winding” (winden)

Execution

The canonical description of the technique is performed thus:

• Beginning from wechsel on the left, against an attacker striking an oberhau/zornhau rechts.
• Step forward with the left, cutting up with an unterhau, stopping their blade with an ochs position..
• Side step backward to the left, winding your sword down to your lower left, striking him across the arms (see the image)
• Continue the movement through schranckhut
• Continuing the motion, cut back over with a sturtzhauw to the head or krumphauw to the hands.

Application

In the winding movement it is useful to flick the tip to the side, imparting a little momentum on the opponent's blade and opening their arms to attack more easily. In this attack to the arms the blow could be considered to be a flavour of Kneichelhauw.

The winding reversal can also be used from a high bind from below in this way.

Application Example

In which the 'student' demonstrates their knowledge to the 'teacher'; the technique is simplified in many areas to the unterhauw winding to a slice, and this simplified version forms the application for this technique.

Teacher	Student
Vom tag, left leg forward	Wechsel, right leg forward
Passing Step, Oberhauw	Passing Step forward, Unterhauw
	Glide Step rear left, wind pommel low left for a slice from above to the arms.