Grauenwolf's Study of Western Martial Arts

Recently someone reached out to tell me that they had printed out guards poster and wanted to know how we use it.

Cutting Around the Clock

This is literally the first drill our club created back when resources were scarce and we were...

The last three plays of Meyer’s staff really should be the first. They teach you how to safely enter measure with driving cuts that the opponent has to deal with.

The play begins with standing at attention. Or more specifically, pulling the staff into Oberhut (High Guard) on the left shoulder. The right foot is forward, which is important.

Pass the left fo...

This advice is specific to the Augsburg dagger tradition, which covers the Bauman manuscript (a.k.a. Codex Wallerstein), Rast manuscript, and Berlin picture book.

It is notable that if the 23 plays, only one is offensive in nature. The rest are presented in a manner not unlike a modern self defense course.

With a couple exceptions, these plays are best stu...

Everyone who does longsword has seen this diagram. It is often referred to as “Meyer’s Square”, even though it’s a cross-cut pattern and the square is just border drawn around it.

But the problem isn’t terminology. The problem is that...

To actually understand Fabris, you need to understand who he is disagreeing with. And I don’t think we have good sources on that from the time of Fabris.

But as I work my way through the discourse chapters in Fabris, I’ve been noticing more and more examples where what L’Ange taught 60 years later is exactly what Fabris is telling you not to do.

For exampl...