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The '''''Twerhaw''''' (''Twerchaw'', ''Twirhaw'', ''Twirchhew'', ''Zwerhaw'', ''Zwerchhaw''; "Thwarting Hew" or "Crosswise Hew") is one of the several [[hidden strike]]s mentioned in [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]'s Record of unarmored [[longsword]] fencing.
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The '''''Twerhaw''''' (''Twerchaw'', ''Twirhaw'', ''Twirchhaw'', ''Zwerhaw'', ''Zwerchhaw''; "Thwarting Hew" or "Crosswise Hew") is one of the several [[hidden strike]]s mentioned in [[Johannes Liechtenauer]]'s Record of unarmored [[longsword]] fencing.
  
 
== Primary Sources ==
 
== Primary Sources ==

Revision as of 17:23, 25 March 2014

The Twerhaw (Twerchaw, Twirhaw, Twirchhaw, Zwerhaw, Zwerchhaw; "Thwarting Hew" or "Crosswise Hew") is one of the several hidden strikes mentioned in Johannes Liechtenauer's Record of unarmored longsword fencing.

Primary Sources

Video Interpretations

{{#evp:youtube|ln94E9AGYTc|Anton Kohutovič, Gesellschaft Lichtenawers|left}}

{{#evp:youtube|DO51JG3bdnE|Eric White, New Jersey Historical Fencing Association|left}}

{{#evp:youtube|a_zyA1ln7vA|Hugh Knight, Die Schlachtschule|left}}

{{#evp:youtube|JLO7rFkyseo|Philippe Willaume, School of Traditional Medieval Fencing|left}}

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Corrected from »Twir«.
  2. haust
  3. Leger - guards
  4. Versetzen - parrying
  5. This seems to be a print error in which the typesetter jumped from one instance of mit der langen schneid to the next, skipping the text in between.
  6. Lit. turned as in “soured” or “embittered”.
  7. Zornhau.