Pseudo-Hans Döbringer/Christian Trosclair Wr 2025

This is about Wrestling

Those that wish to learn wrestling, they shall firstly note and know that the principals: Before, After, Speed, Audacity, Astuteness and Ingenuity, etc; they also belong to wrestling. And know that all refinement comes from wrestling and all fencing originally and fundamentally comes from wrestling: Firstly, the fencing with the long messer. From that, the fencing with the sword, etc.

Note, Master Liechtenauer's wrestling in the onset has many sweeps and applications and that are quite difficult and inscrutable because it is his full intention that not every person who will read it to comprehend.

The first application is good. With it, always seek your artfulness as it lands. Hear what I teach. When the opponent rushes in on you, note that you shove them away from you to both sides. Learn to step, to shove and to wind, always. Make openings, with these one winds down to the sides; setting forward either leg and breaking the hands.

Wherever the opponent seizes you, wind your hands around theirs and theirs must then slip. Above, below, anywhere. With it, you make them fall. If the opponent grips hard upon the shoulder, then you must and shall do nothing else than lay your hands, laying them across, pressing over theirs and in that very pressing, suddenly withdraw your hands from each other and press theirs away.

Thereafter and thereupon go six falls or sweeps, always setting a leg forward or not, as you yourself wish, and finally let the hands go or carry along as you yourself wish so as if it were as one.

From that note this first: You must grip around the opponent and press your hand on their heart and set one leg forward so that you throw the opponent over that leg with one's own entire body.

The second proceeds after the break like this: You can latch onto their elbows and set one leg forwards and throw the opponent over the same leg.

The third proceeds from the break. When you have popped up up their hands, you must then drive them with one leg set forwards and explode forwards with full power and knock their hands away, flipping them with yours.

The fourth is when you have broken like the first time, thereafter drive in against their face (in particular to their nose or chin) with one hand and with the other hand on their back and with one leg set forwards and throw them over it.

The fifth is when you can shove against the opponent's breast, yet with one hand on the head. With one leg set forwards, you throw the opponent upon their head.

The sixth is when you can subsequently take the opponent by the elbow with one hand. With one leg set forwards, throw them to the side and press their hands with yours completely to the ground.

And note that with all of these aforenamed applications, you can set the leg forwards or backwards as you wish.

The seventh is this: you can extend their arm with one of your hands and with one of your hands seizing theirs and with one of your feet kicking their foot into the other where you sweep out, so the opponent falls upon the face or you can set the other leg behind them so you throw them upon their back and break their arm.

The eighth is like that which was just spoken of, except that you seize the opponent's hand with yours and bow out their elbow to the outside and with your other hand on their other hand bend it forwards and shove them to one side.

I also intend to say more about engaging the arm from the first hereafter.

Also note that you shall set the same leg forwards in all applications from whichever side or with whichever hand you wish to throw them down. And in all applications when someone displaces you with one leg, you shall swiftly strike that away with your other leg and quickly shove above, flipping over with the hands, so the opponent falls into whatever is set forwards.

It can also be the most ready that you take the opponent by one hand and let the other go with one leg set forward and turn yourself around with their hand and tilt or break them over your leg so the opponent falls sharply.

The second break is when you shall also shove away the opponent's hands and from that go nine applications that are delivered like this:

When the opponent holds you by the shoulder from above, then lay your elbow inside in their hand and shove their hand away and you can do this with the other hand. Thereafter you can conduct the nine applications from the arm break as is written before.

Now note that you shall also break from below doubly.

Note when the opponent holds you, then shove against their joints with your hands from both sides and and up from below. Also thereupon go nine.

The second: You can explode hard up into the opponent's elbows from [below] with your hands whereby you can also bring about nine applications as before. Thus these are now four.

Note another four, with which you can break the arm.

For the first one, when the opponent holds you by the shoulders, you shall whip your hands around down from above using your elbows so their hands come against your head and you press the opponent into you, against your side and in particular note that you come against the opponent's arm joint with your hand and that you hold your head in your hand hard from behind and with the other hand shove them away near their breast, so that you break their arm. But if you prop your foot behind, then the opponent falls quite sharply.

The second technique is also like this except that you strike your hand from low to high so that you wind their away so that their hands come under your arm, thus allowing them to be run around or set one foot under them, so that the opponent falls. You can do this technique on the other side, so together these are two, and together again, four. This now becomes eight.

Yet note when you clasp the opponent by the belly or around their body and you hold your head hard against their breast and the opponent then grabs onto your knee with one hand and onto your head with the other, then shoves it away. At this point, you can also clear their hands by advancing one leg. Then, they can also clear your leg with their foot and clear you above with their hands. This then counteracts your wrestling and your strength.

You now have the eight previous and from each nine. Now note again another four and from each come your nine as before.

When the opponent seizes you by the front of your breast, press their hands against your breast down from above with yours as before. Which you still have nine, this is just the first.

The second, is as before, with your elbows wound from high to low around their hands as before, and then you again have your nine.

The third up from below thrust at the breast, then you have another nine.

The fourth up from below with the tips of the elbow, then you again have your nine. In this way, you have your twelve and from each nine.

Note, lock or shove with these and you can lead the opponent away from you wherever the opponent seizes you. When the opponent grips you by the sleeves right in front the hands or against the sleeves at the joints or with one hand on the breast or wherever the opponent seizes you, you can send them away from you with that same strike and with winding and thereafter you can shove them as you yourself wish. Thus the opponent cannot come at you with anything, nor can the opponent rightly seize you anywhere on the entire body.

Note a second initiation of wrestling. Just when the opponent springs toward you and you have set one leg before them, they might counter you with a sudden transition with one hand grasping for the leg and their other hand shoving on your breast so that you fall upon your head. This is a counter to that. When the opponent grasps for your leg, then suddenly withdraw it backwards and drag them towards you so that the opponent falls upon their face.

Note this second arrangement. When the opponent springs into you, they might wrap around under your arms and step out behind you with their leg, throwing you quite hard on your back. This is a counter to that. When the opponent grabs around you like that, drop immediately and speed yours to the side. This is the best repulsion in wrestling.

Note this third arrangement. When the opponent springs or steps toward you, they might snatch you with their legs in front of your breast and drop down and drag you toward them and launch you with their interposed foot and throw you over their head so that you are shot far away. This is a counter to that. When the opponent grabs you like that, accelerate and absolutely immediately fall upon them and pursue them so the opponent cannot do this to you.