#fechtschule

For anyone who hasn’t yet seen the following links:

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Some advice on how to start studying the sources generally can be found in these older posts

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Remember to check out  A Guide to Starting a Liberation Martial Arts Gym as it may help with your own club/gym/dojo/school culture and approach.Check out their curriculum too.

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Fear is the Mind Killer: How to Build a Training Culture that Fosters Strength and Resilience by   Kajetan Sadowski   may be relevant as well.

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“How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills”  by Rob Gray  as well as this post that goes over the basics of his constraints lead, ecological approach.

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Another useful book to check out is  The Theory and Practice of Historical European Martial Arts (while about HEMA, a lot of it is applicable to other historical martial arts clubs dealing with research and recreation of old fighting systems).

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Trauma informed coaching and why it matters

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Look at the previous posts in relation to running and cardio to learn how that relates to historical fencing.

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Why having a systematic approach to training can be beneficial

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Why we may not want one attack 10 000 times, nor 10 000 attacks done once, but a third option.

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How consent and opting in function and why it matters.

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More on tactics in fencing

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Types of fencers

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Open vs closed skills

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The three primary factors to safety within historical fencing

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Worth checking out are this blogs tags on pedagogy and teaching for other related useful posts.

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And if you train any weapon based form of historical fencing check out the ‘HEMA game archive’ where you can find a plethora of different drills, focused sparring and game options to use for effective, useful and fun training.

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Check out the cool hemabookshelf facsimile project.

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For more on how to use youtube content for learning historical fencing I suggest checking out these older posts on the concept of video study of sparring and tournament footage.

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The provoker-taker-hitter tactical concept and its uses

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Approaches to goals and methodology in historical fencing

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A short article on why learning about other sports and activities can benefit folks in combat sports

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I reviewed my new swod, it’s cool and you might want one!

“Meyer wrote for an audience who were expected to engage with violence with sword, dagger, and polearm, even if certain aspects of his treatise imply use at a Fechtschule. It would be tempting to stop there, regarding Meyer’s art and his Fechtschulen as categorically “sport.” However, this is a modern context projected onto a thoroughly alien culture, and leads to the question: what exactly does sport mean to the Early Modern citizen of the Holy Roman Empire? What were Fechtschulen like, and what role did they serve for fencers of the time? “

If you want to learn how to use longswords, check out these few links.

For those interested in dagger fighting generally check out this old posts as well as the dagger tab as well as these ones 

If you’re interested in halberds, are among the most common polearms and there’s at least a few manuscripts detailing their use.

For example you may want to check out the Meyer polearm’s section. And there’s also a lot of overlap with staff use, especially within Meyer’s system so one can check out the  Basic Meyer Quarterstaff series on HROARR as a starter to learn the bodymechanics of use.

“From the waiting competitors, another fencer emerges, longsword above his head. They meet, and from several body lengths away, they salute one another. The first fencer is a baker, his challenger a butcher. Their guilds and any interested onlookers cheer. The Schutzhalter talks to them both, making sure they’re clear on the rules, ensuring there’s no known animosity between the two men. Satisfied, he steps back, raises his staff, and shouts.The fencers close, and swing.“

Related to this older post.

To see fencing of a similar sort as that described in the article check out this post.

If you want to learn how to use longswords, check out these few links.

For those interested in dagger fighting generally check out this old posts as well as the dagger tab as well as these ones

If you’re interested in halberds, are among the most common polearms and there’s at least a few manuscripts detailing their use.

For example you may want to check out the Meyer polearm’s section. And there’s also a lot of overlap with staff use, especially within Meyer’s system so one can check out the  Basic Meyer Quarterstaff series on HROARR as a starter to learn the bodymechanics of use.

“So, on the last day of 2018, I am happy to present you with a lovely gift, another article by the amazing Chris Vanslambrouck of the Meyer Frei Fechter Guild.

This is the first part of three already prepared and with another three planned. It's an important read, and you should give it time. It'll be worth it, I guarantee it.

Eine gar nicht mal so gebräuchliche Redensart hat mich zum Nachdenken gebracht, denn dieses Wochenende wiederholen Nichte 2.0 und ich den Ausflug, den ich 2017 schon mit ihrer großen, damals gleichaltrigen, Schwester unternommen habe (und an den sie sich kaum mehr erinnert, leider …): wir besuchen die Fechtschule auf der Schwedenwiese an der Burg Trausnitz, eine der Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der…