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There is a translation available online at the Journal of Western Martial Art:

http://www.ejmas.com/jwma/articles/2000/jwmaart_steenput_1000.html

Just wondering, but where did you get your translation Meyer? I've started on the free translation at http://www.schielhau.org/Meyer.title.html thats just the long sword section, but its making me curious about the rest of it.

Heres a few questions I have been thinking about;

Many of us have MA experience outside of WMA, in various asian, and other arts.
how does that experience influence your interpretations of the historical manuals? An Aikido practitioner may have a vary different interpretation of a technique ...

I live in southern New Hampshire, near Nashua, where are you in Mass.? I just started studying WMA as well.

There is the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcester, which I would recomend checking out. They have quite a collection of arms & armor. They also offer classes through their sword guild ...

Interesting, so oak doesn't really work to well for wasters? I guess as far as hardwoods go it isn't really the toughest, but its still pretty strong stuff. I used white ash, since I have a lot of it on hand, does anyone know how it performs? While working with it I've noticed that its very ...

Has anyone tried making their own wasters? $65 seems like a lot for something that isn't too terribly difficult to make if you have the time, access to suitable woods, and the right tools. I finished my first waster last month, as my first try it didn't come out quite how I'd have liked it though ...

I went there a few weeks ago. There collection of armor is impressive. I didn't get a chance to check out there training though, although I'd like too. Especially since theres no one else in my area practing WMA.

Here it is:

http://www.higgins.org/Research/hunting.shtml

Its the only piece of armor I've ever seen for a dog, but it was meant for hunting wild boar, not war.

I just found out that the Higgins Armory Museum in Worcestor Mass. does some classes in WMA.

http://www.higgins.org/Calendar/swordguild.shtml

Anyone know anything about these guys? It'd be real convenient for me to go there, Worcestor's only a half hour - 45mins away from me.

I'd really ...

I took a closer look at Talhoffer's dagger material, and noticed a lot of the arm locks are extremely similiar to the ones I've seen in kenpo, if not identical.

I'm thinking I might get a of mine freind on the wrestling squad at my school to take a look at the grappling techniques, since I have ...

Hey all,

I've been getting more and more interested in the topic of medieval swordsmanship, and just recently bought a copy of Hans Talhoffers fechtbuch. As I try to understand what these techniques are, I'm becoming more and more baffled as to why he does not present any techniques that ...