Johannes Liechtenauer/Christian Tobler D 2021

This is Master Johannes Liechtenauer’s Fighting on Horseback

1	Direct your spear.  Riding against destroys.
2	If it drops,  the end undoes him.
3	Strike in, don’t pull.  From the scabbard, left to him jerk.
4	Grasp to his right  thus you catch him without weapons work.
5	The fighting of lance-thrusting.  Learn to counter calmly without haste.

6	If it changes  so that the sword is used against the sword,
7	truly seize the strong.  You seek the Pouch Stroke,
8	And remember: learn well to strongly defend.  In all meetings, press him without danger,
9	plant upon without danger.  Who grazes, hang to him to the hair.

10	If you want to calmly  charge long, this troubles greatly
11	whoever now defends that.  Then wind that hurts also.
12	If he defends against this further,  grasp the bridle and do not let it go.
13	Be mindful of the openings,  search for the Messer, do not tend to the pommel.

14	Learn two strokes  with the empty hand against the weapon.
15	The sheep grip fends off  him who turns to you with wrestling.
16	While under the eyes,  grasp him truly with flying.
17	Who attacks you  while riding towards, you will be felled.
18	Hanging to the ground.  Grasp over against him truly with conduct.
19	To both sides  you should learn to ride against him.

20	If you want to ride  The horse run to the other side.
21	Defend strongly,  Plant upon him threaten him with this.
22	Who defends against that,  grasp his sword from afar, get to the handle.
23	Or turn around  to calmly charge for the weapon
24	with all skill.  He who charges, acts to his advantage.
25	If you have charged past him  and unintentionally charge to the left,
26	follow his sword upwards  and wrestle, push also hard.

27	If one charges on the right,  stop; turn around; tend to the fight.
28	With the arm catch.  Thus he cannot manage to harm you.

29	The Messer take.  Hold, learn to shame him.
30	The unnamed,  against the strong to turn
31	their strike, their thrust,  is being defeated without any fencing.

32	If you want to grasp,  you should not fail to ride beside him.
33	The sun pointer.  Take the left sleeve if you want to bend.
34	Touch the forehead.  Against the nape of the neck press very hard,
35	so that he sways  and rarely makes it up again.
36	Who attacks you with that,  grasp over against him and he will be shamed.
37	Press the arm to the head.  This grip often robs the saddle.

38	If you want to retain yourself  from seizing,
39	then take him into custody without wrestling,  without any rope.
40	The before grip remember,  this indeed breaks his strength.

Here Begins the Art with the Short Sword in Dueling, of Master Johannes Liechtenauer, God Have Mercy on Him.

41	Who dismounts,  begins fighting on foot.
42	This do with the spear:  two positions begin truly.
43	Spear and point,  thrust the initial thrust without fear.
44	Spring, wind set truly upon.  If he defends pull, that will defeat him.
45	If you want to thrust before,  with pulling learn to break his defense.
46	Note: if he wants to pull back  from harm and flee,
47	then approach him  to surely attend to grasp.

This Is the Wrestling in Dueling

48	If you want to wrestle,  learn to spring correctly behind the leg.
49	A bar shoot forth,  that skillfully locks the leg.
50	From both sides,  if you want to skillfully end.

51	If it happens that  the sword against the spear is drawn,
52	then behold the thrusts.  Spring, catch, hasten to him to wrestle.
53	Strike long with the left hand.  Spring surely and seize him.
54	If he wants to draw  from the scabbard, grasp and press in,
55	so that his openings  with the sword point are troubled.
56	Leather and gauntlets,  under the eyes, seek the openings correctly.
57	The forbidden wrestling,  surely learn to use.
58	To lock your foe,  the strong thereby overcome.
59	In all teachings  turn the point against the openings.

60	When one sees that from the scabbard  both swords are being drawn,
61	then shall one strengthen.  The protection now truly remember.
62	Before and after, these two things,  explore surely, learn also to spring away.
63	Follow in all meetings  if you want to fool the strong.
64	If he defends, then pull.  Thrust, if he defends, move to him.
65	If he fights extended,  then be artfully instructed.
66	If he also attacks strongly,  the thrusting defeats him.
67	With his striking point  he defends himself—hit without fear.
68	With both hands  learn to turn your point to the eyes.
69	The forward foot  with striking you must protect.