AI Translation

In the next installment of this occasional series, I would like to offer you an alternative version of the Schilhaw against the long point or similar middle positions. Later, I will also discuss Schiller against Oberhaw, as both variants should interpretively converge.

Today I would like to contribute something that has no real basis in historical sources and is just an observation inspired by our training process. Perhaps it will be an approach that we abandon in a few years or it will take hold and spread beyond the Trnava Fencing Guild. I personally hope it is not an artificial delusion, which combat arts are unfortunately full of today.

Zornhaw ort is the very first technique described in Lichtenauer’s Kunst des Fechtens. It’s sometimes considered as the most basic piece of the Zedel and therefore often overlooked. But it certainly deserves the same attention as more popular techniques like Zwerch or Schiller.