Dagger and Wrestling

[1] Dagger fencing and Wrestling Stuck

In dagger there are three guards, namely the High Guard and the Low Guard on both sides. The third Guard is in front of you by the forward most thigh or chest with crossed hands, or else with both hands close to each other.

[2] Item: From you there are only three thrusts, namely High, Low and Thwart thrust, however you will find seven openings, namely the back of the neck/head, the throat, armpit, hip joint, hand thrust, knee joint, and the groin how well you don't need use of all of them with the bare body, but rather in the armor with the fighting daggers.

[3] The first guard

Stand with your right foot forward the dagger above your head, so that the tip remains pointed out at the opponent's face.

[4] If someone stabs at you whether from below or athwart, so thrust through from above with the threner?, the next thrust in through the cross again, the third one a horizontal thrust through his left, drive with the pommel from your left again upwards, into the previously reported guard with a Driving Through.

[5] The Second Guard

Note: Then stand with the left foot forward hold your dagger low beside the inside knee, the tip pointed upwards towards the opponent.

[6] Item: If one stabs from above, then thrust from below against him with a middle thrust from your right side, so that you come back again into the described guard.

[7] The Third Guard

Hold your hands cross-wise one above the other in front of you, the right over the left, the dagger on the right arm, and if someone stabs at you from above, then drive up with the arms and capture the strike between your two hands on the dagger’s blade, Indes grab his right hand with your left hand and jerk him to you towards your left and stab him to the opening.

[8] So these are the three guards with their short rules from the Zufechten, as will be seen here further on.

[9] Item: If one thrusts with a High Strike, then capture his thrust with inverted hand (left) and wrench it around from you, and with your right hand together with the dagger thrust up from below inside to his joint (elbow), so you break his arm.

[10] If someone thrusts high at you, then drive up from below under his arm with dagger horizontal so that your dagger lays across on your arm, while you are displacing him then simultaneously and quickly grab with your left hand to his right, drive quickly upwards with the pommel through and between both his arms and with the dagger next to your right, go up above you and stab him quickly to the face.

[11] Item: Lay the dagger on your arm and if someone thrusts you from below then displace from above down onto the middle of the blade and drive it with the pommel to his face, so that he must defend himself, then go under his right from below and drive upwards with your left hand to take him out and stab him in the face.

[12] If one thrusts at you from outside to the head or such, so thrust over his right arm and catch him with your dagger and jerk that to your right breast, hit him with your left hand to the joint of his elbow and break his arm.

[13] Item: If one thrusts at you from above, then thrust from outside and over his right arm, pull him to you, step with the left foot behind his right, and with your left hand grab his left shoulder from around and behind him, and pull him to your left side over your forward placed leg.

[14] Item: If one thrusts at you from above, then catch his right hand with your reversed left hand, and wrench it up and around away from you and spring in with your right foot behind his right and drive with the dagger pommel together with your open hand onto the front of his throat, throw him from you.

[15] Counter: Pull your right hand towards you, and fold your left arm over your right hand, swing yourself around with this to your right side.

[16] Item: Stand with your left foot forward, take hold of your dagger in the middle next to your right, so that the pommel stands out above your hand, if one thrusts at you, then displace the thrust with your left hand and thrust up instantly with the pommel over his arm to his face, and note as soon as he will displace your thrust, then pull yours again back to you and drive through from below upwards at him from the inside and between both his arms to his chin, stab him from above through his face with a step back.

[17] Note: If one thrusts at you from above, then capture his right with your left hand in the air and reach with your right under and through his arm from outside and around so that your right comes back to your left side lift with both hands well above, step with your right foot behind his right and break him away from you as depicted here.

[18] Position yourself in the Low Guard to the right, take note when he will pull up to thrust, that you immediately step through with your right foot between you and him to his right and thrust to his head from outside and over his right arm, as soon as he pulls up to displace, then jerk your thrust back to you and thrust from under to his right armpit, the third, thrust through with a wrench from your left over his arm.

[19] Position yourself in the Low Guard to the left, then drive out with your dagger and threaten his head from outside and over his right arm, quickly pull back and thrust him upwards from under his arm to his head, Indes thrust away again from your left over his right arm.

[20] Item: If one thrusts at you from below then grab with your left hand on your daggers blade, and displace his thrust from above between both your hands and seize his dagger blade to yours with your left hand and drive down and through with the dagger pommel outside and over his hand, then break upwards with your right hand, that he must let go of his dagger.

[21] If one thrusts at you with a high thrust and with rage, then capture him under his right arm with your hand, and grab him firmly behind the elbow, then stab him to the anterior shoulder, or the heart cavity, or to the face, then immediately thrust through at his right arm, with two Thwart thrusts from both sides, you may also throw him over your leg.

[22] Item: Run in under his high thrust with your left, how it was just taught, and grab his forward thigh, with the dagger jerk back to you, then push up and away from you, thus he falls.

[23] Item: If one thrusts from above at you, so hold your hands crosswise, your right hand on top so that the dagger lays long ways on your arm, then capture his arm between both your hands and in this displacement grab his dagger with your previously mentioned hand and force it around to your left side.

[24] Counter: Step with your right foot behind his left leg, grab with your left hand onto his right elbow and throw him over your right leg.

[25] If one thrusts from above, then step with your left foot well in to him and capture his thrust with crossed hands, and in the parrying drive him around from inside to the outside over his right arm and break this out to your right side.

[26] Counter: Spring with the left foot to him, and grab his right elbow with your left hand and pull him over your right arm.

[27] Item: Parry his high thrust with your dagger (laying) across on your right arm, and grab his sleeve with your left hand by his right elbow hold him strongly to your right breast and thrust him behind to the back of his neck.

[28] Item: If one thrusts from above, then drive under his right arm with crossed hands so that your left is above his and grab his right arm with your left hand and thrust him to the hip or below his right side.

[29] Item: In the Zufechten, take your dagger by the middle and drive down on him strongly through to your right with the dagger horizontal, then next; thrust him from your right with a middle thrust so that you come into the left Low Guard, if he thrusts after, then take this away up from your left with the pommel and thrust him up and over his right to his head or face.

[30] Note: If you are positioned in the Guard from the Roof (High Guard), then thrust down to his arm from above, whether from outside or inside.

[31] Item: If you are positioned in the Low Guard, and where he would thrust from above at you, then stab him with the dagger from below against his arm.

[32] Item: In those Stucken that he wants to do to your right arm, whether with both hands or a single hand, then strike him strongly up from below with your left arm to his arm joint (elbow), or fall down onto his arm joint from outside and above with thrusting or striking or grab onto him with wrestling.

[33] Item: Capture his right arm with your right hand and reach over his right arm in front of his chest onto his left arm by the lower thumb* and hold fast or grab him around his neck and throw him over your leg.

[34] Item: Displace his low thrust with the dagger and reach around from outside and over both arms and grab your dagger under his hand again, then jerk to your left side with crossed hands towards you, so that he must release the dagger.

[35] Note: If one thrusts at you from above, then displace his thrust between your two crossed hands, and wrench downwards to yourself, and let go with your left hand and thrust him to his right armpit, swinging him to your right side.

[36] Item: Displace the low thrust with your left hand or arm, and bend it over from the outside and with your right hand grab his elbow back towards you and pull his hand through his back, then take off your right hand and grab his arm with it, bending his hand towards you, and he will fall.

[37] Wrestling and the Forbidden Attacks that shall not be allowed in the Open Schools

Namely, the murder thrust to the Temple, to the groin, arm breaking, leg breaking, knee thrusts finger severing and breaking, neck thrusts, throat thrusts and eye gouging.

[38] Item: If someone grabs you by the arms with wrestling, then rush to take hold of him, with your left hand jerk his left hand to you and shoot immediately with your right arm from outside and over his left so that your elbow is forward on his chest or his chin and step at once with your right foot behind his left foot and throw him off his feet.

[39] If he grabs you with wrestling and does not have a good hold on you, then grab his right hand with your right hand and jerk it towards you, grab his elbow with your left hand and strive with the left for his right, so swing him over it, or break his arm, then fall on his arm with your chest.

[40] Item: With your left hand grasp his left, and jerk him toward you. and force his right arm outwards and over his left, then grab his right arm with your right hand, and step with your right foot to him and wrestle him to your left side.

[41] Item: If one grabs you by the arms, and you also grab his, then release your right hand and drive through from below and strike the joint of his right arm, and so break through from below, upwards and seize him by the right elbow, and with the left hand grasp under the elbow against his arm and step with your right foot between his legs, or at least against them, and push from you.

[42] Note: When one grabs around your body under your arms, whether with the left or the right, then strike with the same arm from outside onto his joint and turn yourself from him.

[43] Item: Beware when he holds his feet straight, then step against him. Note in all wrestling that he doesn’t kick you to the groin, so pay attention to when he will lift his foot to kick your groin, then kick out with your foot against his, follow after him then with a strike or kick to his groin.

[44] Item: If one has already grabbed or intends to grab at you with open hands, then see that you catch one of his fingers and break it upwards, thus he must release you or else lose to your advantage.

[45] Item: If you wrestle with one who is nearly equal, see that both your arms go low and grab him around the middle, lift him off the ground while stomping on his foot with your foot, heave yourself to the other side, thus he falls.

[46] Item: When someone grabs you around the body and will lift you up to throw you down put one knee hard between both his legs, so he may not lift you, and be careful how soon he lifts you, and to which side he lifts you, then hilff him on the other.

[47] Note: If one catches you low on your leg to throw you, then meet him with your body on his and catch him with your left hand around his neck, and force him to you, with your right hand, and keep your advantage.

[48] Note: When one will grab onto your shoulders or arms, then strike out with both hands from below and separate his arms, then catch him by the leg and pull to you.

[49] Notice with what wrestling one wants to attack you, then see when he attacks you, that you close your fists hard and put them to your sides, or both sides of your chest, and push with the elbows out around you, swinging yourself free, then attack him quickly thereafter according to your advantage.

[50] Note that if you seize a man by the hand in a hurry, jerk him to you, and drive with your other hand around his neck so that your hand comes back around to your chest, and grab your clothes and force him hard towards you, thus you will have caught him for the throw.

[51] Item: Grab him by his right hand, swing it up and go through under his arm. Then step with your right foot between both his legs, grab from outside with your right hand around his leg, pull his right arm well towards you over your shoulder and heave upwards, throwing him to your liking.