The Zwerchhau (Outdated Interpretations)

SEVERAL OF THE INTERPRETATIONS IN THIS VIDEO ARE OUTDATED. A NEW VIDEO WITH UPDATED INTERPRETATIONS WILL SOON BE AVAILABLE.

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Sports

Tags:

• martial
• arts
• sword
• fechten
• liechtenauer
• ringeck
• kal
• longsword
• memag
• german
• fencing
• fighting

[sirbobulous]

How much actual cutting power/damage is actually being dealt to the opponent with some of these block, displacement, strike sequences that are shown? There seems to be little body twisting or arm movement to generate power and I wonder if these would do real damage to a foe. Could you make a test cutting vid, perhaps get a side of beef or something and perform some of these strikes with their limited arm/body movements and see if they actually cause something lethal/serious?

[MEMAG]

We've done a fair amount of test cutting using the types of attacks seen in this video, usually against whole hams. I can assure you that every attack shown here is debilitating or lethal if delivered correctly with a sharp sword. I'll see if I can get some videos of test cutting up in the near future. Thanks for the comment!

[MarymonckiJohn]

or You made it up, or the third, which may also be possible, I did not see something?

Besides, nice video, interesting choices, great music and admirable commitment, Keep practicing, keep improving and make more videos! thanks

[MEMAG]

Johannes Liechtenauer writes "What you well Zwerch, with jumping you protect your head." We interpret this jump (spring) as a movement using both feet. While I do agree that some of the jumping footwork of the "loser" in the video is unnecessary, I am fully confident in the use of jumping with the Zwerchhau and similar actions. Another thing is that the video doesn't really allow you to see all the different angles we use. Many of those jumps take us well to the side, not just switching feet.

[MADdwarfWorkshop]

love this music. anyone know what it is???

[Ranziel1]

This stuff is for unarmored fighting. Armored looks different, another style.

[tantorecords]

Nice unarmed drills. Armed drills next please!

[gurkfisk89]

@wariscomeing

The NYHFA has done it. Look at this video:

watch?v=HNEBpu8eDsU

around 25 s in.

I would not like to be hit by that to my head or neck. =)

[wariscomeing]

please get some test cutting videos up some time it would be interesting to see how lethal they are :)

[gurkfisk89]

@ewbecht

Google: "HEMA alliance club finder" and you'll soon find a map over some of the clubs. If none of them are close to you then I recomend you contact the one that's nearest you and maybe they know of clubs in your area that aren't on the map.

[ewbecht]

do you guys know of any similar schools in florida

[LessaAlessandro]

Can't understand the movement of your feets. Vary unusual for me.

Cheers. 

[foxfire122]

hello, very nice very nice. what are you using in these videos? wasters? and were did you get them?

[taitungknight]

@Ranziel1

That was what I meant. When you power it through the hips, it tends to twist your body...

Strangely though, I see very little of hip twisting in the video but rather very fast stance changes.

[Ranziel1]

@taitungknight You shouldn't be twisting your body anyway, power comes from the hips.

[taitungknight]

@sirbobulous

I'm thinking with these blades there's so much momentum that they do a huge amount of damage. Besides, one could also twist the hip at the last second to add power...