Krumphauw

Crooked Strike

One of the five meisterhau, krumphauw is used to defeat cuts from above, and the ochs guard.

For example; stand in a right nebenhut. When your opponent strikes an oberhau/zornhau do a passing step forward and off to the right and bring your sword over like a windscreen wiper with your hands out in front and the blade angled toward your opponent, so that you strike his blade with your long edge, or strike over to his hands.

Generally if you hit the blade you should follow on the pressing the hands (hendtrucken).

Meyer describes the technique with hands held high in the cut, though this can be adjusted as required.

Application Example

In which the 'student' demonstrates their knowledge to the 'teacher'.

Teacher	Student
Vom tag, left leg forward	[[Nebenhut]], left leg forward
Passing Step Zornhauw	Passing Step forward and right, Krumphauw to parry the blade away
	Gathering Step forward, shifting the blade up to slice (schneiden) the arms and bar them to block their movement(sperren).