by Steve | Oct 22, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, our review of the Ringeck gloss resumes, and we’ll be looking at what do to when we are displaced. Confronting an opponent who is fencing defensively can be a problem, but fortunately, there are countermeasures against such...
by Steve | Oct 13, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, the class will focus on Schnappen, a particularly useful technique from this portion of the text. As it happens, Schnappen is something of a specialty of one of our best trained fighters, Aidan Witherspoon. In fact, you can hardly...
by Steve | Oct 9, 2021 | Classes
Good evening, all. This week at Crossing Fight School, we will begin our lesson by taking a closer look at a few fundamental things in KDF, namely the guards themselves, and also the Vier Versetzen, the virtues of which I have long espoused. As I have said many times,...
by Steve | Oct 1, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll take a look at the bastard of the 5 Hidden Hews, the Scheitelhau. Dismissed, maligned, and misunderstood, this cut is thought by many to be almost useless, but it does have its applications (as we will see). Ringeck only...
by Steve | Sep 24, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, it will be the return of Fight Week. Once again, we’ll be going through a series of technique and strategy-based exercises meant to refine our fencing and better prepare us for the fights ahead, both in and out of a...
by Steve | Sep 16, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be going through the remaining plays from Wallerstein dagger and wrapping things up. Not unlike some of the Longsword material from this manuscript, what may first appear a bit odd at first glance has proven to be pretty...
by Steve | Sep 10, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, as promised, we will be be reviewing the Wallerstein dagger plays. As a handful of you know, the Nuremberg tradition has some of the more creative and visceral material, replete with painful submisson holds, stabs to the...
by Steve | Sep 3, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll have our second installment of the Schielhau. We’ve covered the first portion last week, where we learned of its utility in dealing with aggressive fighters and displacing an oberhau, and this week, we’ll be...
by Steve | Aug 26, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be taking a close look at everybody’s favorite short edge cut, the Schielhau! Is someone threatening you in Langort? Are you about to get stabbed? Are you facing down a buffalo in a fencing match? No problem! A...
by Steve | Aug 20, 2021 | Classes
This week at Crossing Fight School, we’ll be wrapping up the Zwerchhau material with some customized exercises, as per our hybrid lesson format. We’ll be striking to the Ox and the Plow (one of my favorite options), engaging in deceit, and foiling those...
