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<section begin="29"/>Thus how your sword goes to war and strikes was taught<section end="29"/>
 
<section begin="29"/>Thus how your sword goes to war and strikes was taught<section end="29"/>
  
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<section begin="30"/>'''How one shall drive transforming to both sides'''
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<section begin="30"/>'''How one shall drive transforming to both sides'''<br/><br/>
  
 
When you have struck him strongly above to the head from your right shoulder, if he displaces and is weak on the sword, then wind the short edge on his sword to your left side and, driving well up with your arms, drive your sword's blade high over his sword and stab his lower opening.<section end="30"/>
 
When you have struck him strongly above to the head from your right shoulder, if he displaces and is weak on the sword, then wind the short edge on his sword to your left side and, driving well up with your arms, drive your sword's blade high over his sword and stab his lower opening.<section end="30"/>
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<section begin="32"/>Thus are fencing and work with the sword retained to be praised.<section end="32"/>
 
<section begin="32"/>Thus are fencing and work with the sword retained to be praised.<section end="32"/>
  
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<section begin="33"/>'''Text on the Arc Strike with its plays'''
 
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| Crook up swiftly<br/>Throw the point onto the hands
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| Arc out nimbly, <br/>throw your point to the hands,
 
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| Whoever waits well crooked<br/>Disrupts many cuts with stepping.
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| Arc to whom would attack, <br/>striding much allows strikes.
 
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Note the crooked cut is one of the four parries against the four guards because with them one breaks the guards that are called the ox here and also rising and descending cuts. Conduct it like this. When you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, if they then stand against you and hold their sword in front of their head in the guard of the ox on their left side, then advance your left foot and hold your sword in guard on your right shoulder and spring facing them well to your right side with your right foot and strike them across their hands with the long edge from crossed arms.<section end="33"/>
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Glosa The arc strike is one of the four displacements against the four guards, in that with it one breaks the guard named the Ox, and it also drives onto the Over and Under Strikes. When you come to him in the pre-fencing, if he stands against you holding his sword before his head in the guard of the Ox, on his left side, then put your left foot forward, and hold your sword on your right shoulder, in the guard, and spring with the right foot well to your right side against him, and strike him with the long edge, from crossed arms, over the hands.<section end="33"/>
  
 
<section begin="34"/>'''Another'''
 
<section begin="34"/>'''Another'''
  
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Note you can also conduct the crooked cut from the barrier guard on both sides. Take yourself into the guard like this. When you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, then stand with your left foot forwards and hold your sword such that the long edge is above with your point on the ground by your right side and present yourself open with your left side. Then, if they cut into your opening, spring away from the cut, facing them, with the right foot well to your right side and from the long edge strike them with crossed hands on their hands with your point.<section end="34"/>
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You should also try the arc strike from the barrier guard, from either side, And thus set yourself in this guard: when you come to him in the pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword close on your right side with your point to the ground so that your long edge is above, and give an opening on the left side. If he strikes to the opening, then burst out from the strike with your right foot toward him well to your right side, And strike him with crossed hands and the long edge with the point out to his hands.<section end="34"/>
  
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<section begin="35"/>'''Of the Barrier Guard'''
  
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Take yourself to your left side with the barrier guard like this. When you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, do it with your right foot forwards and hold your sword upon the ground by your left side with crossed hands such that the short edge is up and present yourself open with your right side. Then if they cut into your opening, then spring away from the cut, facing them, with your left foot well to their right side and strike them in the spring with the short edge across their hands.<section end="35"/>
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Put yourself thus in the barrier guard to your left side: when you come to him with it in the pre-fencing, then stand with the right foot forward and hold your sword near your left side to the ground with crossed hands, so the short edge is above, and give an opening with your right side, if he Strikes to your opening, then burst out of the strike toward him with the left foot well to his right side, and strike in the burst with the short edge over the hands.<section end="35"/>
  
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<section begin="36"/>'''This is the text and the gloss of a good play from the crooked cut'''
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<section begin="36"/>'''A good bit of text regarding the Krumphau'''
 
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| Cut crooked to the flats<br/>Of the masters if you wish to weaken them
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| Arc strike to the flat <br/>and you will weaken the master.
 
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| When it sparks above<br/>Then dismount, that I will praise
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| When it glides above <br/>then stand off so I will praise.
 
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Gloss: Note you shall conduct this play against the masters from the bind of the sword. Conduct it like this. When you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, then either lay down your sword to the right side into the barrier guard and stand with your left foot forwards or hold it on your right shoulder. Then if they cut at the opening from above, cut across their cut with your long edge from criss-crossed arms. And as soon as the swords spark together, then 'Indes', wind your short edge against their sword facing your left side and stab them in the face. Or if you don't want to thrust, then 'Indes', cut to their head or to their body with your short edge.<section end="36"/>
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You shall deploy this play against most binds with the sword, and drive it so: When you come to him in the pre-fencing, then lay your sword to your right side in the barrier guard and stand with the left foot forward, or hold it on the right shoulder, if he then strikes high to the opening, then strike strongly with the long edge to cross arms against his strike, and as soon as the swords clash together then immediately wind the short edge on his sword toward your left, and stab him in the face. Or if you will not stab him, then strike him immediately with the short edge, from the sword to the head or body.<section end="36"/>
  
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<section begin="37"/>'''This is again the text and the gloss of one from the crooked cut'''
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<section begin="37"/>'''Text on a part of the arc strike'''
 
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| Don't crook, short cut<br/>With that, look for the disengage.
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| Strike an arc not a short, <br/>show changes through with it.
 
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Gloss: Note this is for when the opponent cleaves in from their right side from above. So rise up with your hands high and act as if you wish to bind against their sword with the crooked cut and pass through below their sword with your point and stab them in the face or in the breast on the other side and take care that you are well covered with your hilt in front of your face. You can also break the guard of the ox with this play. Conduct it like this. When you go to them with the initiation of fencing, if they then stand facing you and hold their sword with their hilt in front of their head on their left side, then throw your sword on your right shoulder and act as if you wish to bind against their sword with the crooked cut and cut short and with that disengage below their sword and shoot your point in long to the other side under their sword into their throat so they must parry. With this you come to strikes and other work with the sword.
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Glosa That is when he will strike one high from his right side, then drive up high with the hands and as he strikes you will arc strike to bind on his sword, and drive the point through under his sword and stab to his other side into his face or chest, and be sure you wait to keep your hilt high before your head. Also to break the guard of the Ox with this play, you drive so when you go to him in pre-fencing, when he stands against you and holds his sword with the hilt on his left side, in front of the head, then throw your sword to your right shoulder and act as if you would bind onto his sword with the krumphau, strike short and change through with it below his sword, and shoot your point long under his sword to the other side and at his throat so he must displace, then you will come to hit and work with the sword.<section end="37"/>
  
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[Marginal note in a different hand:] against the ox
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[Marginal note in a different hand:] crooked cut w. Which breaks the guard of the ox<section end="37"/>
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| Crook whoever bewilders you<br/>The noble war bewilders them
 
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Gloss: Note whenever you conduct the crooked cut, you will always make yourself open with it. Look at it like this, when you cleave in or bind against their sword with the crooked cut from your right side, you are open on the left side during this. If they are also crafty and will cut from your sword to your opening and bewilder you with agility, then keep your sword against theirs and track their sword from there onward and wind your point into their face and continue to work with the war, that is, with the windings to the openings so that they become so baffled that they truthfully will not know which regions that they should shield themselves from your cuts and thrusts.<section end="38"/>
 
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<section begin="39"/>'''Here begins the text and the gloss of the crosswise cut with its plays'''
 
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Gloss: Note the crosswise cut breaks the roof guard and any cut that is hewn down from above. Conduct the crosswise cut like this, when you come to the opponent with the initiation of fencing, do it with your left foot forwards and hold your sword on your right shoulder. Then if they stand facing you and hold their sword with outstretched arms high over their head and threaten to cleave in from above, come with your cut before they do and spring well to your right side with your right foot and in that spring, wind your sword with your hilt in front of your head such that your thumb comes under and strike them with the short edge against their left side in the head<section end="39"/>
 
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<section begin="40"/>Or if they come before you do with their cut down from above, then spring away from their cut with your right foot, well to your right side with the previously mentioned act of parrying so that you catch their cut in your hilt and strike them with the crosswise cut on the left side of their head<section end="40"/>
 
  
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<section begin="41"/>'''Here observe the counter against the Cross Strike'''
  
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Note when you stand facing the opponent in the roof guard, boldly cleave in at their head from above. Then if they spring away from your cut and intend to arrive first with the crosswise cut and strike you with it on the left side of your head, fall upon their sword with your long edge. Then if they strike around to your other side with the crosswise cut, 'Indes' you go forth ahead of them under their sword and in front of yourself against their neck so that they slash themselves with your sword.<section end="41"/>
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When you stand against him in the guard of the roof then strike high to his head, if he then springs from the strike and means to come forward with a cross strike by striking to the left side of your head, then let your sword's long edge fall on his sword, if he then strikes across over to the other side, Immediately strike your sword ahead crossing under his sword to his throat so that he cuts himself with your sword.<section end="41"/>
  
 
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Note when you have bound the opponent against your sword, if they then strike from your sword around to the other side with the crosswise cut, then fall into their hands or upon their arms with your long edge and press their arms away from you with everything you've got with a slice, and from that slice of their arms strike them on their head with your sword.<section end="42"/>
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Mark that when you have bound on a fencer's sword, if he then flies from the sword over in a cross to the other side, then let the long edge fall on his hand or arm and hit with the edge of the sword with your arms well out from you and snap the sword's edge from his arms up to his head.<section end="42"/>
  
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<section begin="43"/>'''Here note the break against the upper slice into the arm'''
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Note when you strike the opponent with the crosswise cut to their right side, if they then fall into your arm with a slice, then strike them in their mouth with your short edge from behind their sword's blade by doubling.<section end="43"/>
 
Note when you strike the opponent with the crosswise cut to their right side, if they then fall into your arm with a slice, then strike them in their mouth with your short edge from behind their sword's blade by doubling.<section end="43"/>

Revision as of 03:09, 3 November 2022

The text expanding from the verses follows from here;



Text

9 If you will show art,
send yourself to Left and Right in striking,
10 and left with right
is how you fence correctly and strongly.

Glosa Mark that this is the first tenet of the long sword, that before all things, to learn the strikes rightly, you will always fence strongly, and undertake this thus: When you stand with the left foot forward, and strike from your right side, your step with the right foot will not follow after the strike, thus making the strike weak and incorrect. When your right stays behind, onward the strike will be short. Also don't make your right step go to the other side, putting it under yourself and ahead of your left foot,

otherwise the play further from the left side shall happen with the step and strike on opposing sides.

Text of a lesson

11 He who strikes after
deserves a joyless art.

Glosa That is when you come to him in fencing, then you shall not stay still and wait to see with what strike he would fight against you. Know that all fencers who wait to see the other's strike and who will do nothing but displace the other, deserve indeed less joy in their art when they are overcome and struck.

Text

12 Strike closely at him as you will,
that nothing comes unto your hilt,
13 head, or body,
allow no attack.
14 With the entire body
fence as strongly as you can drive.

Glosa When you come to him in pre-fencing, as you would then fence, then drive with your body's full strength, and strike closely to him, one to his head, and to his body, and always keep your point ahead at his face or chest, Thus he can't change through past the point. If he displaces strongly, and your point goes off to the side, then give him a withdrawing slice to the arm,

Or if his arms go high in the displacement, then hit him with a free strike below to his body and step backward with it. Thus he is struck even as he would (strike) himself.

Text

15 Hear what is bad,
fight not to left, if you are right,
16 and if you are left,
the right is very limiting

Glosa This lesson is intended for two people, one right handed and one left, and regards how you should strike, that one is weak when he strikes the first strike not to engage, and this is shown thus: when you come to him in pre-fencing, and are on the right, then undertake not to strike the first strike from the left side where he is weak and does not want to engage against and strike strong with you, so onward strike from the right where you will engage strongly and work at the sword. Similarly if you are left then strike the first not from the right side, as it is wild for the leftie to drive the art entirely from the right side, similarly for the right from the left side.

Text

17 Before and After, the two things,
all arts are from one spring.
18 Weak and Strong,
Immediately, do mark this word,
19 thus you will learn
work and weapon with Art,
20 know well that
no fencing is never learned

Glosa You should first of all rightly undertake and understand two things, that is the Before and the After, and thereafter the weak and strong of the sword and then the word Immediately.[1] From here grows the whole foundation of all fencing arts. When you undertake and understand these things rightly and not forget the word Immediately in all plays, you will drive. Thus will you be a good master of the sword and princes and nobles shall learn well with what proper art of the sword one would choose to fight best and in earnest.

What the Before is

That is that you shall always come before, be it with the strike or with the stab, as when you come to him with a strike or otherwise so that he must displace you, Immediately work ahead nimbly with the sword in the displacement or else with other plays, that he can then come to no work.

What the After is

Is to counter all plays away, and strike to drive the opponent from you, And to take this on even as he comes with the strike, so you must displace. Immediately work nimbly to the next opening and thus break his Before with your After.

Of the Weak and Strong of the Sword

Weak and Strong are taken thus, on the sword from the hilt to the middle of the blade, this is the strong of the sword, and farther past the middle to the point is the weak, and how you shall work with the weak and strong of the sword shall be clarified afterward.

Text of the Five Strikes

21 Teach Five strikes
from the right hand,
22 that the weapon will be exalted
by a praiseworthy art.

There are five secret strikes of which many masters of the sword know nothing to say. These you shall learn to strike well from the right side, which you can then strike with proper art to break and damage the fencer, which will be praised by other masters. How these shall be learned fully and how to strike when one fences in your plays will be clarified afterward.

Text on the verses' parts.

23 Wrathful strike, Arc, Cross,
has Glance, with Vertex,
24 Fool displaces,
Traveling After, Overrun lets strike,
25 Change through, Disengage,
Run Through, Slice Away, Hand Hit,
26 Wind with openings,
Slash against strikes, Stab with thrusting,

Here will be named the proper main parts of the verses of the Long Sword, as they are known, as well as their names, so onward you know well and can understand. The first are the five strikes as they are specially named.

The first is called the Wrath Strike,
the second the Arc Strike,
the third the Cross Strike,
the fourth the Glance Strike,
the fifth the Vertex Strike.

Now mark these elements,

the first being the four Guards,
the next the four Displacements,
the third the Traveling After,
the fourth Running Over,
the fifth the Parry,
the sixth is Changing Through,
the seventh is Disengaging,
the eighth Charging Through,
the ninth is Slicing Off,
the tenth is Hand Hitting,
the eleventh is Hanging,
the twelfth is the Winding.

And how you shall fence with the plays and how you shall gain openings with the Hanging and Winding so that you will go from one to the next, you will find described after here.

Mark that you come here to the first text and glosa

on the Wrath Strike with its plays

Text

27 To him who strikes you from above,
Wrath Strike point concludes.

Glosa The Wrath Strike counters all high strikes with the point. And it is indeed nothing other than a bad peasant strike. Deploy it thus: when you come to him in the pre-fencing: if he strikes to you from his right side high to the head, then to this also strike from high on your right wrathfully displacing with him on his sword, if he is then weak on the sword, then aim to shoot ahead with the point and stab to his face, or attack the chest between the arms.

Text

28 If he wards,
then take off high without driving

Glosa When you strike him with the Wrath Strike, then thrust the point long to his face or chest as described before. If he is wary of the point and strongly displaces and pushes your point to the side, then wrench off from his sword high above you with your sword on his sword's blade, and strike one to his other side, yet again on his sword's blade, to his head, this is called taking off high.

Counter against the take off

When he takes off high, then bind strongly on his sword above to his head with the long edge.

Text

29 Be stronger, wind farther,
stab, stab first, then take it farther.

Glosa That is when you strike him with a Wrath Strike, if he displaces and stays strong on the sword in the displacement, then also stay with your sword strong on his sword and drive upward with your arms and wind your quillons onto his sword going forward to his head and stab high into his face, if he becomes aware of the stab and (note in margin: with the short edge) drives up high with his arms, and displaces with the quillons, then stay standing with your hilt in front of your head and send your point below to the throat, or to the chest between his arms, as will be told later.

Text of a lesson on the Wrath Strike

30 Mark well,
strike stab stances light or hard,
31 Immediately[2] and truly after,
onward the war will not be awkward.

Glosa When he has bound on your sword with a strike or stab or otherwise, then you should not let yourself stop even in your winds, the before will be gained by marking if he is weak or strong when one sword slides against the other and, as you have determined this, immediately work first by winding against the light and the hard, always to the next opening, as will be clarified and examined in plays after this.

Text on the war.

32 When the war roams above,
below he will be shamed.

The War is the Winding and the work to the four openings with the point that comes from it, and deploy this thus: when you strike with the Wrath Strike, as soon as he displaces then drive full forward with your arms and immediately wind the point high on his sword to the upper opening on his left side. If he then displaces the high stab, then stay standing in the wind with your hilt in front of your head, and let your point sink below to your left side, if he follows after your sword in displacement, then drive on to his left side with the sword and send the point up to his upper right opening, thus will he be shamed with the war high and low, in that you drive properly from one to the other.

Text of a lesson

33 In all windings,
strike stab slice, learn to find,
34 also should you not
test, strike stab or slice,
35 in all engagements,
you will lose the mastery.

This is when you strike with the Wrath Strike, then you should remember well to end completely with the Windings, and a single wind has three particular elements, that is one strike, one slice, and one stab, and when you wind on the sword, then you should indeed consider well that these elements aren't driven wrongly. Take heed in the winding that you not strike when you should stab, and not slice when you should strike, and not stab when you should slice. Thus you shall always know the elements, that by properly heeding them you will drive all meetings and bindings with the sword, otherwise you will fail or lose the mastery when one displaces against you. How you shall deploy the windings, and how many there are, you will find described in the last part of the verses, which will speak of what will deploy well and what will counter properly.

Of the four Openings

36 Know four openings,
space, thus you hit wisely,
37 in all attacks
double where he is wary.

Glosa If one wants to be a master of the sword, he should know how to break the four openings with art, and then he will fence properly and wisely. The first opening is the right side, the second the left, both above the belt, the other two are on the left and right side, both under the belt. One should seek the openings by driving on to two from the pre-fencing by following after and shooting with the long point. The second time one should probe with the eight windings, when one binds from one to another on the sword, this you should also understand when you come to him in pre-fencing that you should always drive as best as one can to all with a strike or a stab into the four openings and pay no attention to what he deploys or fences against you. Thus you will force your opponent so that he must displace and, when he has displaced, then seek quickly for the next opening by winding in the displacement on the sword, and thus always roam to his openings and fence not to his sword, in this part you will achieve placement at four end points, stay there and thus end the lesson.

How one shall break the four openings

38 If you will reckon
to break the four openings with art,
39 double above,
transform below right.
40 I say to you be aware onward,
you shoot no man without driving,
41 if you've reached him,
make a close hit, then he won't advance

Glosa When you have first struck, if you then reckon to wind to his four openings with art so that he must let you strike as you please, then drive a double against the strong of his sword and then transform when he is weak at the sword, thus I say onward be aware that he won't be able to shoot in the Before as he wants, and so cannot come to strike.

How you shall drive the Doubling to both sides

Mark when he strikes high to you from his right shoulder, then also strike similarly strong and high from your right to his head, if he displaces and stays strong on the sword, then drive on Immediately with your arms and thrust your sword's pommel under your right arm with your left hand, and with crossed arms strike the long edge behind his sword's blade onto his head.

Another

If he strikes high to your head with the long edge from his left shoulder, then do the same, onward if he then stays strong on the sword, then drive your arms up quickly and strike with the short edge behind his sword's blade to his head.

Thus how your sword goes to war and strikes was taught

How one shall drive transforming to both sides

When you have struck him strongly above to the head from your right shoulder, if he displaces and is weak on the sword, then wind the short edge on his sword to your left side and, driving well up with your arms, drive your sword's blade high over his sword and stab his lower opening.

Another

When you have struck high to his head from your left side and he displaces and is weak on the sword, then drive up with your arms and hang the point over his sword from above and stab to his second opening. Thus you will drive the two elements from all strikes as you find him weak and strong on the sword.

Thus are fencing and work with the sword retained to be praised.

Text on the Arc Strike with its plays

42 Arc out nimbly,
throw your point to the hands,
43 Arc to whom would attack,
striding much allows strikes.

Glosa The arc strike is one of the four displacements against the four guards, in that with it one breaks the guard named the Ox, and it also drives onto the Over and Under Strikes. When you come to him in the pre-fencing, if he stands against you holding his sword before his head in the guard of the Ox, on his left side, then put your left foot forward, and hold your sword on your right shoulder, in the guard, and spring with the right foot well to your right side against him, and strike him with the long edge, from crossed arms, over the hands.

Another

You should also try the arc strike from the barrier guard, from either side, And thus set yourself in this guard: when you come to him in the pre-fencing, then stand with the left foot forward and hold your sword close on your right side with your point to the ground so that your long edge is above, and give an opening on the left side. If he strikes to the opening, then burst out from the strike with your right foot toward him well to your right side, And strike him with crossed hands and the long edge with the point out to his hands.

Of the Barrier Guard

Put yourself thus in the barrier guard to your left side: when you come to him with it in the pre-fencing, then stand with the right foot forward and hold your sword near your left side to the ground with crossed hands, so the short edge is above, and give an opening with your right side, if he Strikes to your opening, then burst out of the strike toward him with the left foot well to his right side, and strike in the burst with the short edge over the hands.

A good bit of text regarding the Krumphau

44 Arc strike to the flat
and you will weaken the master.
45 When it glides above
then stand off so I will praise.

You shall deploy this play against most binds with the sword, and drive it so: When you come to him in the pre-fencing, then lay your sword to your right side in the barrier guard and stand with the left foot forward, or hold it on the right shoulder, if he then strikes high to the opening, then strike strongly with the long edge to cross arms against his strike, and as soon as the swords clash together then immediately wind the short edge on his sword toward your left, and stab him in the face. Or if you will not stab him, then strike him immediately with the short edge, from the sword to the head or body.

Text on a part of the arc strike

46 Strike an arc not a short,
show changes through with it.

Glosa That is when he will strike one high from his right side, then drive up high with the hands and as he strikes you will arc strike to bind on his sword, and drive the point through under his sword and stab to his other side into his face or chest, and be sure you wait to keep your hilt high before your head. Also to break the guard of the Ox with this play, you drive so when you go to him in pre-fencing, when he stands against you and holds his sword with the hilt on his left side, in front of the head, then throw your sword to your right shoulder and act as if you would bind onto his sword with the krumphau, strike short and change through with it below his sword, and shoot your point long under his sword to the other side and at his throat so he must displace, then you will come to hit and work with the sword.

Here observe the counter against the Cross Strike

When you stand against him in the guard of the roof then strike high to his head, if he then springs from the strike and means to come forward with a cross strike by striking to the left side of your head, then let your sword's long edge fall on his sword, if he then strikes across over to the other side, Immediately strike your sword ahead crossing under his sword to his throat so that he cuts himself with your sword.

Note:

Mark that when you have bound on a fencer's sword, if he then flies from the sword over in a cross to the other side, then let the long edge fall on his hand or arm and hit with the edge of the sword with your arms well out from you and snap the sword's edge from his arms up to his head.

  1. ↑ Just As
  2. ↑ Just As // Indes
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