Paulus Hector Mair #Poleaxe No.5
Channel: fechtkunst.schule
Date: 2019-02-25

This is an interpretation of #poleaxe play 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/qiKpd5
Source: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Dresden I Transcription (1540s) by Pierre-Henry Bas
English Translation by Per Magnus Haaland
Fencer: Monique Mück, Florian Popp & Christian Stickel

---A thrust to the groin against a turning in

this device is performed thus: stand with the left foot forward and hold the axe raised over in front of your face with the right hand on the middle of the shaft and the left on the back end. Then, step forward with the right foot and thrust your opponent in the groin [1]. 

If he does this to you, and you are standing with your right foot forward, holding your axe before your face with both hands, right hand on the back end and the left by the blade, then parry to your left with the back end and strike him in the head with the flat of the blade[2].
If he parries on the shaft between his hands, you thrust the back end into his face between his both arms [3]. Should he parry this as well, you step back with your left foot and strike him on the right arm with the flat of the blade [4]. Then you step away from him while turning the axe around.