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7/12/2025, 2:08:55 AM
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https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Different from Joachim Meyer, unless you meant to imply that you knew of Mair but were excluding him.
Based autist got hanged because he kept embezzling funds for his special interests.
Talhoffer is a really good source because like Achille Marozzo he goes over a little bit of everything. Longsword? Check. Sword and board? Check. Giant ass spiked fucking shield? Check. Marital judicial duels where you are in a hole and you beat each other with clubs? Yes.
People DO train with sword & buckler but due to the lack of explicit information, a lot of what is learned is from later sources with the implicit understanding that it probably isnt that much different than earlier stuff. A lot of 18 and 19th century guys, the mercenaries and private instructors and whatnot cover a lot of sword and targe/buckler type things. Here is a plate from Valville, a French source showing a hanging sabre guard in conjunction with a protective item: https://hemamisfits.com/2015/08/02/treatise-on-the-counter-point-by-alexandre-valville-1817/#:~:text=Guard%20of%20the%20Scottish%20Highlander
Also desu, actual sword and shield is hard to sportify. Not sword and buckler, but actual strapped arm shield and XI/XII/XIII/XIV arming sword stuff. It is very easy to protect yourself and without a free hand for grappling it is mostly endurance or having a height advantage. It is a lot easier to replicate unarmored weapon sparring aka rapier or blossfechten where everyone is a glass cannon for scoring purposes, than to do something where IRL fighting was a lot less decisive. Harnessfechten with longswords or pole weapons is a lot more fun because you can make it first impact OR a takedown. Arming swords and kite or heater shields is just really boring and not fun and either you bonk them on the head because you are taller, or get a tiny glancing blow on their elbow, and you win, and it isnt very sporting to do.
https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Paulus_Hector_Mair
Different from Joachim Meyer, unless you meant to imply that you knew of Mair but were excluding him.
Based autist got hanged because he kept embezzling funds for his special interests.
Talhoffer is a really good source because like Achille Marozzo he goes over a little bit of everything. Longsword? Check. Sword and board? Check. Giant ass spiked fucking shield? Check. Marital judicial duels where you are in a hole and you beat each other with clubs? Yes.
People DO train with sword & buckler but due to the lack of explicit information, a lot of what is learned is from later sources with the implicit understanding that it probably isnt that much different than earlier stuff. A lot of 18 and 19th century guys, the mercenaries and private instructors and whatnot cover a lot of sword and targe/buckler type things. Here is a plate from Valville, a French source showing a hanging sabre guard in conjunction with a protective item: https://hemamisfits.com/2015/08/02/treatise-on-the-counter-point-by-alexandre-valville-1817/#:~:text=Guard%20of%20the%20Scottish%20Highlander
Also desu, actual sword and shield is hard to sportify. Not sword and buckler, but actual strapped arm shield and XI/XII/XIII/XIV arming sword stuff. It is very easy to protect yourself and without a free hand for grappling it is mostly endurance or having a height advantage. It is a lot easier to replicate unarmored weapon sparring aka rapier or blossfechten where everyone is a glass cannon for scoring purposes, than to do something where IRL fighting was a lot less decisive. Harnessfechten with longswords or pole weapons is a lot more fun because you can make it first impact OR a takedown. Arming swords and kite or heater shields is just really boring and not fun and either you bonk them on the head because you are taller, or get a tiny glancing blow on their elbow, and you win, and it isnt very sporting to do.
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