Step 1 of 4Strasbourg, 16th c.
Low hanging guard inviting attack.
Talhoffer, Alte Armatur und Ringkunst, 1459 — Ms.Thott.290.2º, fol. 9r. Wikimedia Commons ↗
Folio 1rGerman (Meyer)

Alber-Stück

— the fool's device

Meyer's device from the Fool. Invite the cut; spring offline; the rising cut arrives in the same tempo.

The Fool is bait. Meyer's Alber-Stück uses the apparent openness of the guard to provoke a committed Oberhau, then answers with a single rising cut delivered as you spring offline.

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Alber

— the fool

Stand in Alber — sword hanging low, point at the ground, the head apparently undefended.

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