Paulus Hector Mair - Historical #Dagger fencing play No.21 - HEMA
Channel: fechtkunst.schule
Date: 2019-05-15

#learnhema .. This is an interpretation of dagger play No.21 from Paulus Hector Mair's 
enormous compendium of martial arts teachings "Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica" 
(MSS Dresd.C.93/C.94).
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Source: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Dresden I Transcription (1540s) by Pierre-Henry Bas
Fencer: Fabian & Christian

An attack [onfall, onslaught] with a throw

Item if you both come together in the onset so, stand with your left foot forward and hold the thumb by your rondel. Immediately step with your right leg into him and stab him from below at his face. [1]

If you then stand with your left foot against him and he thus stabs at you, so go to him with a thrust from above in against [him] in front over his right hand. Immediately grip with your right hand on his dagger and turn therewith the point over itself [2].

If he has thus seized your dagger, so step with your left leg inwindingly behind his left and seize with your left hand by his left shoulder. Immediately tug above strongly and strike your foot to him below so you may throw him [3].

If he wishes thus to throw you, so release your right hand from your dagger and set to him well under his left arm pit. Shove him therewith over himself from you. Immediately stab him with your left hand (we forgot this change of hands) at his face so you will be free of his [4].