Paulus Hector Mair #Halberd No.21
Channel: fechtkunst.schule
Date: 2020-01-06

This is an interpretation of #halberd play 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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Training Manual: https://is.gd/9990O0
Source: http://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Dresden I Transcription (1540s) by Pierre-Henry Bas
English Translation by Per Magnus Haaland
Fencer: Susanne, Fabian & Christian


This play is to be found in the Mixed Weapon Section 2 of the Munich edition. 



--The Crossed Guard against the Low

Hold yourself like this in this piece in the approach: Step in toward him with your left leg and go up out from the lower guard with a thrust to his face. [1]


If he stabs you from below like this and you stand against him in the crossed guard with your right foot forward, then step in with your left leg and cut from above to oppose his thrust as you step. Push it downwards so that you take his thrust away. [2] 



If he has cut at you in this way and taken away your thrust, then wind your blade from your left side against his halberd on his left side, thus you block him. In the same moment, then pull the halberd and thrust toward his face or chest. [3] 



If he stabs at you like this, then take it away with your blade on your left side. In the same instant, cut to his head with your blade [4]. Turn yourself twice back away from him.