Meyer's longsword 101 - Chapter 11: Break window (Brechfenster)
- HEMA 101 admin
- Oct 24
- 2 min read
"[This] Is actually allocated to the high guards. It is only used in the bind after you have come under your opponent’s sword. You should refrain from moving into this guard for as long as you see your opponent’s point and blade still in front of you, as you will not be safe from anything [in front of you] in this [guard]. However, as soon as you come under their sword, then this is one of the most exemplary guards, and you use it thusly:"
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"When you have now come under the opponent’s sword, which means that you must guide your sword over your head in the aforementioned Break Window, such that you expose both your arms and fingers:"
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If they cut crosswise or from below...
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"Or you may grip over toward them, thus:"
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Optionally, you can also slide into a hanging to defend against their zwerch, grab their blade and threaten with the point.
Lastly, Meyer gives a lesson on winding. If in the bind they wind into Ochs, you wind into Ochs and get them with the Scheilhau.

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