Play 1: You take the vor # You Opponent 1 Move into right wrath guard 2 Do nothing 3 Step and cut Zorn from right to left ear 4 Parry...

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...

The Zornhau is described as a 'peasant's strike', and in Meyer is described as a diagonal Oberhau from the right to the left ear of the...

Joachim Meyer called them the 'Master strikes' and this is how they are mostly known in modern parlance. However, in the LL glosses they...

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

Parries in LL system can be broken down into: Common parries: not used if you can help it, but probably necessary to train against in...