Paulus Hector Mair - Historical #Dussack fencing play No.5 - HEMA
Channel: fechtkunst.schule
Date: 2019-12-04

#learnhema .. This is an interpretation of #Dussack play No.5 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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Training Manual: https://is.gd/lZs0TG
Source: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Dresden I Transcription (1540s) by Pierre-Henry Bas
Fencer: Susanne & Christian




---The Zwingerhaw with the Schrankhut

You come to the opponent at the closing and it happens that you stand in the Zwingerhaw (Swinging Strike) with your right foot forward and your Duseggen at your left shoulder (left side of illustration). Immediately follow outward with your left leg and strike his right arm. Thus you swing in so that he must displace (move out of the way) [1].

[Note: I don't think that the translation of "Zwinger" to swinger is correct here. The semantics of "zwingen" is more to force someone to do something.]



If he swings towards you like this to displace you and you stand with your right foot forward in the Schrankhut (Barrier Guard) with the point on the ground and the long edge directed at the opponent (right side of illustration), then pull your right foot back and go upwards with the Duseggen in front of your head. Then immediately step outward again with the right leg and strike to his left side [2]. If he displaces this, hang on your right side so that the long edge is turned upwards, spring with your left foot behind his right, and strike with the Zwirch to his right ear [3].

If he does the Zwirch like this to your right side, displace it with your long edge. Then immediately step in with your right leg and cut inward to his right arm from below [4] while simultaneously gripping his right hand with your left so that you have gained the upper opening [5].