For a beginner working from Meyer's manual your instructions are by far the simplest and yet most comprehensive to follow. I cannot thank you enough for posting.
I've never had any interest in sword fight but recently my friends and I started a D&D campaign and my character wields a long sword so I wanted to draw my character in a cool pose and these videos are so great to understand how to properly hold a sword and get a reference for the correct proportions!
Oh thank God! I've been looking EVERYWHERE for an explanation like this! It's for a book I'm writing and one of my character is a sword wielder, especially the broadsword!
Could you elaborate on the cut angle on the undcuts? I'm not sure I understand how you deliver any kind of decent cut with the edge out of line in that motion. Other HEMA people seem to make a pretty big deal out of edge alignment to even get through clothing.
What makes you think ochs is with horizontal edge alignment? Or more to the point... Always or inherently with horizontal edge alignment? With this version you show here any oberhau can blast right through it as they will have their edge on your flat. Static blocks from ochs... Are they described? I think they use the hilt, not so much the blade... As opposed to versetzen (displacements) which are not static blocks. Absetzen or winding into a regular diagonal edge alignment is much more efficient as well as widely depicted... In fact the horizontal edge alignment is hardly shown at all. And as already noted, you upper strikes are more a weird prellhau. The rotational point of the zwerch over your head gets hands hit, as there is no opposition in the zwerch, nor forward percussion onto any bind the zwerch might result in, making it a very risky strike to use, as opposed to the strong and line closing strike it can be
Two questions, when your middle cutting, arent you just doing a Zwerchau? Wouldn't a middle cut instead descend to cut at neck height or lower without doing the 'helicopter of death' Secondly what source is the thumb under Ox from? Ive seen it done by loads of people and ive never understood what text it comes from?
Justin McLean mittlehau strikes long edge from the right, Zwerchau strikes short edge from the right. IIRC, C487 Dresden mentions thumb under the blade to support
Also, a Zwerchau is a mastercut, which requires a master step to be completed. In this case while he is doing a similar motion, the transition he is doing is a slightly different technique due to the footwork he uses, especially when it comes to fighting offline, which mastercuts do.
@@TheDidYouKnowChannel You can complete the master cuts without doing a triangle step, you can step forwards, sideways, backwards, or even not step at all
2:00 it's not mitellhau. Mitellhau and Zwerchhau is horizontal strike. Mitellhau where your thumbs up of the blade from your dominat side strike. When you strike from non dominats side your thumbs down of the blade. Zwerchhau during strikes your thumbs down of the swords in both domints and non domints side. 2:00 it's clearly a master strike.
