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It seems that both Cod. I.6.2.3 as well as Cod. I.6.4.5 shows the "lasoo" technique that is featured in Mair's manuscript:


http://media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/node?id=47500

http://media.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/node?id=47851

Yet despite this ...

Speaking of Mair and esoteric weapons ... what about this plate ?

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00007894/images/bsb00007894_00393.jpg

Apparently its one of the mounted fighting techniques. However I am quite puzzled by the "rope" that one rider uses offensively ...

Just to add a detail that the olde English pre-queensbury pugilism/boxing contained a fair bit of infighting consisting of wrestling/gouging / headbutting and even kicking (especially folks that came from Devon , their "regional" style of wrestling included devastating shin kicking/scraping).

As ...

Im guessing probably the same as in Germany, e.g. Dussack/Messer (Czechs call it Tesák), longsword , rapier/cut-n-thrust etc. To my knowledge as far as dueling with sabres (in central europe) is concerned it was pretty much only a Hungarian (and later on Polish) thing.

Cheers

Thank you , I think Ill do that.

I am a long lurker on these forums and have enjoyed Mr. Clements articles very much over the past years. However Mr.Clements once (a year of two in the past) mentioned that he is working on an article concerning western falchions , messers , backswords and the like. As a saber affectionado (my ...