3 Responses to Meyer’s advice on the two-handed sword

1. C. VanSlambrouck says:

   May 31, 2012 at 11:17

   In regard to “statements that separates Meyer from most of the early KdF sources”, I have always liked this bit from The Third Part of Treatise the Sword;
   “for it is clear from other previous booklets on combat that the verses are not much use without explanation.”
   and then Meister Meyer proceeds to explain his verses in great detail.

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2. Jonathan Ucab says:

   June 7, 2012 at 05:43

   Schneiden

   Thus you shall now go in all devices from the sword to the body, and from the body to the sword. But if he will pull or flit from you, then always take the schnitt as a help. For he who does not know the schnitt, will not usefully execute it; but if you can do it correctly, then you will constrain him as you will, unless he knows how to counter the schnitt, of which you will find few.

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3. Jonathan Ucab says:

   June 7, 2012 at 06:00

   …a short lesson and precept how you shall lay on against your opponent in the Before, rush upon him, and compel him to parry you…

   …Whichever line you follow to lay on from one side, you shall also cut horizontally or diagonally opposite to it, either with the long or short edge or with the flat. If you execute this powerfully and quickly in the Vor, you compel him to allow you another attack against his will; even if he works to fight against it, you are already upon him to follow up with Nachreisen, Schneiden, Trucken, and such like, so that you do not let him come to any complete work.

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