This is my current approach to using 15th-century German fencing theory. You may have a different interpretation—and indeed, the...

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...

I recently wrote an article about tempo: Using tempo/timing to fence better (hema101.com). This article is a continuation of that. I...

In simple terms, the Nach means 'after' and refers to the defensive actions. It also designates the status of the fencer who is being...

Vor means 'before'. In my last post I talked about exactly what this means, but in summary it refers to attacking actions. It can...

The five words describe, in a nutshell, good fencing in the LL system. They are: Vor, Nach, Weak, Strong, and Indes. The RDL Glosses do...

These are the core elements of LL's system. To test myself, this was mostly written from memory, but I have referred to the Zettel and...