What are your thoughts on this? How do you define it? How do the different masters define it?
I have my personal definition of this, but I would like to hear your thoughts. Please join in, everyone!
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Yeah, murky area. I mostly study Ringeck, and in his outer takings (part of his nachreisen section) he is specifically using the blade as a reference point and seems to be using 3 & 4. However, I'm not yet entirely comfortable with my interpretations of those plays.Roger Norling wrote:However, some masters appear to use 1 & 2 more, which can contradict 3 and 4, in the sense that your point is on your opponent's outside or inside, no matter what side of his point your point is. It is simply a matter och chest and back, and not a relationship between the weapons and bodies.
With regard to stances, I assume you mean the starting positions of the opponents? A more troubling question for me is the positions of the opponents at the point of contact, because it is not always clear, especially in Talhoffer, if the defender has stepped into his defense or remained in the same position. If the inside/outside reference is his sword, it doesn't matter, but if it's his body, that changes everything.Roger Norling wrote:Has anyone ever made a table of how the masters define the inside and the outside or if they recommend opposite or mirrored stances? I've been thinking of doing this, but I have other things that I need to prioritize first.