(Patrick's Notes)
Revised "Primary Stances" (Ringeck: Fier Leger) Drill: Start in High Vom Tag (Oberhut) with left leg forward. Cut to Alber, Ochs and Pflug, then thrust into Langort, passing to each position (remembering the intermediate Langort / Hangetort). Then swing via Nebenhut back into Vom Tag (now with right foot forward) and repeat.
New Horizontal Cuts drill: Cut from Ochs to Ochs using either Mittelhau or Zwerchhau. Leader can call to mix them up.
(Patrick's Notes)
Drill: Starting from Schluessel, perform a Scheitelhau passing forwards then Unterhau passing backwards to arrive back in Schluessel. First do stopping at each stance (Vom Tag, Langort, Alba, Eisenport, Hangetort, Einhorn) then do slowly but smoothly (no stopping).
Similarly practice Zorn, starting and finishing in Ochs (Langort, Wechsel, Nebenhut, Hangetort, Einhorn) on both sides.
(Patrick's Notes)
Revision:
Hitting (and intending to hit) during drills
Recovering in guard after the hit
Stringere
Practised: stringere - lunge, lunge into covered line, cavaccione, contracavaccione.
(Patrick's Notes)
Discussed the problem of left/right. Meyer only discusses explicitly
two left/right variants: Ochs and Pflug. In Ochs, it's left if the
sword is on the left (right foot forward), in Pflug, it's left if the
left foot is forward (sword on right). We decided to adopt the
convention (till something better comes along), that stances are
generally described by which foot is forward except for Ochs. So, for
example, Wechsel left has the left foot forward and sword on the right.
(Patrick's Notes) This is a list of the stances we practised:
From high to low
(Katherine's Notes)
Hands: Usually have both hands on the hilt, right hand closest to quillons
(for RH combatant).
1. Setting off / Absetzen
Meyer says: Setting off is when, from one of the four guards [High, Low, Irongate, Plow] you turn the long edge against his weapon, and turn into the Longpoint.
