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.

The Fourth Part

N°. 1. On the Hair-Pulls

This shall show us nothing else than how these grips are begun, with D grasping the hair of E between his fingers and twisting it around them, having extended his arms inside between the arms of E.

2.

Then D pulls E backwards by the hair, turning him around, placing his elbow on his spine, which allows him to strike E on the face from behind with his other hand.

3.

E being inconvenienced thus, still being held by the hair, D [It is not completely clear from the text who does the turning, but E already has his back towards D] turns around so that D and E are back to back, D then places his behind against the behind of E, and pulls him with great force, as a result of which E will fall over the head of D.

4.

E being thus overturned and thrown, does not stay down, but standing up, grasps D behind the sleeve or arm, and grasps with the right hand the right wrist of D, forcing this grasped arm of D inwards, and places his left foot on the back of the right knee of D, thus forcing him to fall (though the plate does not display this fall).