Articles

• Hans Talhoffer's dagger
• Myth of "20 to 30 pound broadswords"
• Dagger techniques from Talhoffer's Fechtbuch 1467
• Simplified method for instructing dagger techniques. (500kb pdf)
• Talhoffer's Tafel 172
• Dagger techniques from Achille Marozzo
• Defence against a dagger from Fiore dei Liberi
• Our first attempts at Talhoffer's dagger.
• A buckler from an IKEA salad bowl.
• Thoughts on sharing of research.
• Recommended Literature and book reviews
• Links

Sources

• Vollstandiges Ring-Buch of Johann Georg Passchen.
• Nicolaes Petter's Klare Onderrichtinge der Voortreffelijcke Worstel-Konst.
• Some dietary rules.
• Hendrick van Buren's Drilkonst, (1672) (pdf, 4Mb)
• Illustrated translation of chapter 3: handling of the pike, from the above.

Other Part

Vollstandiges
Ring-Buch

When Adversarius has taken hold of your right flank, so free yourself outwards, as in N° 16.

The same inwards.

When Adversarius has taken hold of your left flank, so free yourself outwards, as in N° 17.

The same inwards.

When Adversarius has taken hold of both your sides with both hands, so free yourself inwards with both hands, as in N° 18.

When Adversarius has taken hold of both your sides with both hands, so free yourself outwards with your right hand [in this and some of the following, it seems that the arm is used rather than the hand mentioned in the text] in Adversarii weak, as in N° 19.

The same with your left hand outwards.

When Adversarius has taken hold of your left side with his right hand, so strike him with your left hand on his right elbow, as in N° 20.

When Adversarius has taken hold of your right side with his left hand, so strike him with your right hand on his left elbow.

When Adversarius has taken hold of both your sides with both hands, so strike with both hands to both his elbows, as in N° 21.

When Adversarius has taken hold of your right side with his left hand, so strike him with your right hand [arm, according to the figure] on his left elbow, as in N° 22.

You do the same for the other hand.

When Adversarius has taken hold of both your sides with both hands, so strike with your right hand to his left elbow, as in N° 23.

You can do the same with your left hand to his right elbow.

Or strike with both hands inwards to his weak, as in N° 24.

When Adversarius has grabbed your throat with his right hand, so free yourself outwards with your right hand, as in N° 25. [in this and the following technique, the inwards and outwards seem to have opposite meanings than up till now]

Or inwards with the right hand.

When Adversarius has grabbed your throat with his left hand, so free yourself outwards with the left hand, as in N° 26.

Or with the left hand inwards.

When Adversarius has grabbed your throat with both hands, so free yourself outwards with both your hands, as in N° 27.

The same inwards.

When Adversarius has grabbed your throat with his right hand, so place your left hand on your hip, and strike with your left elbow his right arm loose, as in N° 28.

You can do the same with your right elbow, if he grabs your throat with the left hand.

When Adversarius has grabbed your sides with both hands, so bear down with both your elbows between his arms on his weak, and so free yourself, as in N° 29.

Make the Parade with the right arm high, as in N° 30.

The same with the left arm high.

Make the Parade with the right arm low, as in N° 31.

The same with the left arm low.

Strike with the edge of your flat hand to Advers. nose, as in N° 32, also the same way to his mouth [Maul] or throat [Gurgel].

Pull Adversarium head back by the hair with your right hand [in the drawing this seems to be the left hand], and strike him with your closed fist upwards on the chin, as in N° 33.

When Advers. has enclosed you with his arms [a bear hug from the front], push both your thumbs in his mouth between his cheeks and teeth, and tear his mouth, as in N° 34 [the drawing shows this with one hand - try it on yourself to feel if it works].

Strike Adversarium with your right elbow in the face, as in N° 35, so also to the ribs.

Or with your left elbow.