The Messer Nehmen Formal Exercise for the Messer
Published 2021-09-16
This Formal Exercise was created by Journeyman Chris Bertell.
Die Schnappen mit der Verkehrter Handt
If you fight someone with the messer and he cuts at you above, then parry with your messer outwards with the flat on the nail and go quickly before you with the left foot and fall in with the pommel over his arm, as stands depicted here, so you cut him on the head. (Wallerstein 29r)
Bricht Schnappen
If he has moved his hilt over your right hand and wants to press it down, Indes move your hilt over his right hand on the outside and Indes move your left hand to [grab] his hilt under his hand. Then, pull firmly with both hands down to your right side. In that way you take his Messer (Lecküchner fol. 172v).
Messer Nehmen
When your opponent stabs towards you from below with his Dussack, then fall upon his right hand with your left hand and hold it and grab below into his Messer with your inverted right hand, and turn his Messer upwards from below with the point against his torso and walk with your chest behind into the Messer, so that you stab him with his own weapon. (Paurñfeyndt p. H)
Demonstrators: Chris Bertell, Journeyman and Chad Cordero, Apprentice.