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=== Secondary Cuts === | === Secondary Cuts === | ||
| + | Crooked cut variations: | ||
* [[Krumphauw]] (crooked strike) | * [[Krumphauw]] (crooked strike) | ||
* [[Kurtzhauw]] (short strike) | * [[Kurtzhauw]] (short strike) | ||
| + | False edge cuts which parry: | ||
* [[Schielhauw]] (squinting strike) | * [[Schielhauw]] (squinting strike) | ||
* [[Glutzhauw]] (clashing strike) | * [[Glutzhauw]] (clashing strike) | ||
| + | Thwart cut variations: | ||
* [[Zwerch]] (thwart) | * [[Zwerch]] (thwart) | ||
* [[Kneichelhauw]] (wrist strike) | * [[Kneichelhauw]] (wrist strike) | ||
| + | Plunging cut variations: | ||
* [[Sturtzhauw]] (plunge strike) | * [[Sturtzhauw]] (plunge strike) | ||
* [[Kronhauw]] ( crown strike) | * [[Kronhauw]] ( crown strike) | ||
| + | Cuts with winding: | ||
* [[Blendthauw]] (blind strike) | * [[Blendthauw]] (blind strike) | ||
* [[Windthauw]] (winding strike) | * [[Windthauw]] (winding strike) | ||
| + | Cuts with changing openings. | ||
* [[Prellhauw]] (rebound strike) | * [[Prellhauw]] (rebound strike) | ||
* [[Wechselhauw]] (change strike) | * [[Wechselhauw]] (change strike) | ||
Revision as of 02:56, 21 March 2017
The longsword is the subject of the majority of historical fencing manuals from the medieval/high medieval period. While many of the texts also describe other weapons, the longsword provides a common thread throughout. Meyer also uses many of the lessons from the longsword as a basis for his other weapon treatises.
From its earliest days the longsword was a battlefield weapon and remained in use as such through the 14th and 15th centuries, eventually fading into disuse as a common battlefield weapon at the close of the 16th century. During this period, however, it also became the weapon of choice for judicial duels, as well as one of the central weapons in competitive schulefechten. This last application became the central focus of the longsword during the 16th century with the rise in popularity of fencing as a sport amongst the citizens of German towns and cities.
In Meyer Free Scholars the longsword is used to teach all of the principles of armed combat that apply to other weapons, and as such takes up the greater part of the basic syllabus. Longsword techniques integrate directly with ringen with one transitioning smoothly into the other as the flow of combat dictates.
Guards
Fundamentals
Principal Guards
Secondary Guards
Low Side Guards
- Wechsel (change)
- Nebenhut (near guard)
- Schranckhut (barrier guard)
High Side Guards
Centreline Guards
Hanging Guards
Strikes
Principal Cuts
- Oberhauw (high cut)
- Unterhauw (low cut)
- Mittelhauw (middle cut)
- Zornhauw (wrath cut)
Secondary Cuts
Crooked cut variations:
False edge cuts which parry:
- Schielhauw (squinting strike)
- Glutzhauw (clashing strike)
Thwart cut variations:
- Zwerch (thwart)
- Kneichelhauw (wrist strike)
Plunging cut variations:
- Sturtzhauw (plunge strike)
- Kronhauw ( crown strike)
Cuts with winding:
- Blendthauw (blind strike)
- Windthauw (winding strike)
Cuts with changing openings.
- Prellhauw (rebound strike)
- Wechselhauw (change strike)
Meisterhauw
- Zornhauw
- Scheitelhauw
- Krumphauw
- Schielhauw
- Zwerch
Cutting to the Openings
Handwork Descriptions
Attacking
- Abschneiden (slicing off)
- Nachreisen (chasing)
- Schlaudern (slinging)
- Einlauffen (running in)
Anbinden (binding)
Verstullen (blocking)
- Schneiden (slicing)
- Hendtrucken (pressing hands)
- Verkehren (reversing)
- Außreissen (wrenching)
- Sperren (barring)
- Ubergreiffen (over gripping)
Absetzen (setting off)
- Umbschlagen (striking around)
- Rinde (looping/rounds)
- Ablauffen (running off)
- Doplieren (doubling)
- Umbschnappen (snapping around)
- Winden (winding)
- Durchwinden (winding through)
- Verschieben (sliding/deflecting)
- Hengen (hanging)
Verfuhren (deceiving)
- Zirckel (circle)
- Zucken (pulling)
- Verfliegen (flitting)
- Wechseln (changing)
- Fehlen (failing)
