Hammaborg - Longsword Techniques (Pt. 2/8): Peter Falkner Manuscript

A workshop held at the Martial Arts Gathering Swordfish in Gothenburg in November 2009. Dierk Hagedorn and Falko Fritz from Hammaborg show a variety of techniques based on master Peter Falkner, a member of Johannes Liechtenauer's society.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• longsword
• sword
• swordfight
• historical fencing
• historical martial arts

[Mittilgil]

Hello!

Sorry for my English, it is bad:)

I have a question about krumphau. If you make a stab at high speed with full force, to discourage him by krumphau impossible. Strike will inevitably hit you with either the side or in the leg, even if you have time to jump.

[DierkHagedorn]

@Mittilgil I am not quite sure if I understand you correctly. If somebody thrusts at me, I can of course use the Krumphau in order to parry and simultaneously counter-attack. I don't se the reason why I necessarily must be hit as you suggest. Or did I get you wrong?

[3r4s3r666]

Well I have one question about this technique: while krumping on your partners sword you give it an additional force towards your leg (if i can see it correct in the vid, always like to be rectified ;)) and you move your partners sword between your body and your sword, beeing pretty open for a new strike. So what i want to know is how you can conter/parry a new attack from your partner or avoid giving him the chance to attack the left side of your body?

[DierkHagedorn]

@3r4s3r666 Thank you for your interest. We have been working a lot on the krumphau lately and have come to more interesting solutions. Concerning your question however, it is both the small step off-line and the impact to the blade that prevents any danger. The opponent's sword should go to the ground and one should be able to apply any follow-up action like a thrust or hit to the head.

[DierkHagedorn]

@3r4s3r666 If, however, the opponent is quite strong that he remains in contact with the blade, that's no problem too, since then you can use winden techniques while remaining in the bind.

Did that clarify your question a little?

[mymuffinnotyours]

What is the music used at the beggining? It is beautiful!

[DierkHagedorn]

@mymuffinnotyours It's from the 2nd movement of Anton Bruckner's sympony #5

[DierkHagedorn]

@vargata: Thank you. That helped a lot.

[3r4s3r666]

@DierkHagedorn

All right with an additional step sideways to move my left ankle away from the enemys sword moving direction during the Krumphau I can imagine now how it can work in combat. In the vid your left ankle remains at the very same position, which led to my question. Of course after your explanation I think it is mostly because your focus was more on presenting the movement of the sword. Long text short summary: thanks for the clarification. I'm inquisitive about those new solutions;)

[mymuffinnotyours]

@DierkHagedorn Thank you sir!

[DierkHagedorn]

@ZygmuntNadratowski Steel longswords, Model "Dürrer" and "Embleton", made by swords.cz