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.
Knife Fighting Birthday Party
A small knife fighting seminar was taught at Eli's 2002 birthday party. Instruction was provided by Sven and Geert and inspired by/stolen from Pete Kautz' latest London seminar in June 2002.
Traditional warmup exercises
Including lifting rocks and other heavy weights
Spada drill
Virtus Unita Fortior
Flag waving
The traditional martial exercise of flag-waving strentghens the muscles, expands the chest and induces full and regular respiration, imparts firmness of balance, accuracy and grace of motion, and, when skilfully used, presents a very attractive appearance.
some patterns may have to be modified for individual size...
Food
The feast menu was made after original medieval recipes, mostly from UB Gent Hs. 1035, Menagier de Paris, and the Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch.
Games
Nearly all traditional games have martial origins as exercices for warfare.
grabbing and toe-stomping games resulting in general melée
the Bear
Dolchfechten
German dagger techniques from the Von Danzig manuscript (Master Lignitzer and Master Huntfeltz).
that wasn't how it should be done
American Bowie knife fighting
Various offensive and defensive drill patterns in the Biddle and Styer tradition
the cook had to occasionally help out
Modern combat training
quickdraws from any position, grappling against walls or on the ground, surprise attack and group attacks, and drills from the DrawPoint system.
the importance of attacking with the legs while on the ground