This post is heavily inspired (stolen?) from Jeff Tsay of Forte Swordplay. Check out his videos on his YouTube channel (which I've...

See part 1 here: Meyer's longsword 101 - Chapters 1-4.   As before, yellow text is my own, the rest is a rewrite of Meyer's 1570 book...

See part 1 here: Meyer's longsword 101 - Chapters 1-4. As before, yellow text is my own, the rest is a rewrite of Meyer's 1570 book...

Editor's note: this is a much abridged and edited/reworded version of Joachim Meyer's 1570 book. Its purpose was to a) force me to...