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Ablauffen (Ablaufen, Running-Off or Flowing-Off) means to withdraw from or evade the opponent’s weapon by rotating the blade downwards around the hilt. It is one of several techniques featured in the Handworks section of longsword techniques in [[Joachim Meÿer]]'s canon, and is also referenced in the longswoard and dussack sections of [[Paulus Hector Mair]]. The earliest appearance for Ablauffen is in the messer treatises of [[Johannes Lecküchner]]. 

== Primary Sources ==

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! id="thin" | <p>Images<br/>from the [[Kunst des Messerfechtens (Cgm 582)|Munich Version I]]</p>
! <p>Translation<br/>by [[Grzegorz&nbsp;Żabiński]], [[Russell&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Mitchell]], <br/>and [[Falko&nbsp;Fritz]]</p>
! <p>[[Kunst des Messerfechtens (Cod.Pal.Germ.430)|Heidelberg Version]] (1478)<br/>by [[Grzegorz&nbsp;Żabiński]], [[Russell&nbsp;A.&nbsp;Mitchell]], <br/>and [[Falko&nbsp;Fritz]]</p>
! <p>[[Kunst des Messerfechtens (Cgm 582)|Munich Version I]] (1482)<br/>by [[Carsten&nbsp;Lorbeer]], [[Julia&nbsp;Lorbeer]], [[Johann&nbsp;Heim]], [[Robert&nbsp;Brunner]], and [[Alex&nbsp;Kiermayer]]</p>
! <p>[[Codex Speyer (MS M.I.29)|Salzburg Version]] (1491)<br/>by [[Dierk Hagedorn]]</p>
! <p>[[OPLODIDASKALIA sive Armorvm Tractandorvm Meditatio Alberti Dvreri (MS 26-232)|Vienna Version]] (1512)<br/></p>
! <p>[[Gregor Erhart Fechtbuch (MS E.1939.65.354)|Glasgow Version]] (1533)<br/></p>
! <p>[[Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (MSS Dresd.C.93/C.94)|Mair's Dresden Version I]] (1542)<br/>by [[Pierre-Henry Bas]]</p>
! <p>[[Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Cod.10825/10826)|Mair's Vienna Version I]] (1540s) [German]<br/></p>
! <p>[[Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Cod.10825/10826)|Mair's Vienna Version I]] (1540s) [Latin]<br/></p>
! <p>[[Opus Amplissimum de Arte Athletica (Cod.icon. 393)|Mair's Munich Version I]] (1550s)<br/></p>
! <p>[[Lienhart Sollinger Fechtbuch (Cgm 3712)|Munich Version II]] (1556)<br/></p>

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! <p>Images</p>
! <p>Translation<br/>by [[Mike Rasmusson]]</p>
! <p>1560 Edtition</p>
! <p>1570 Edition<br/>by [[Alex Kiermayer]]</p>

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| '''Flowing Off'''
On whichever hand you bind on your opponent’s sword, so move while retrieving your hand, and let yourself flow off below you with the half edge, and twitch under to bring your riccasso high overhead to strike, and drive such to both sides.
| '''Ablauffen.'''
ISt / von welcher Handt du dem Mann an sein Schwerdt bindest / so verkehr in dem es riert dein Hand / und laß mit halber schneid undersich ablauffen / und zuck under des dein Hefft ubersich in die höh zum streich / und solches treib zu beiden seiten.

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== Video Interpretations ==

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== References ==

[[Category:Other Techniques]]
[[Category:German Techniques]]
[[Category:Handworks (Meyer)]]