Step 1 of 4Strasbourg, 16th c.
Low point-forward guard.
Talhoffer, Alte Armatur und Ringkunst, 1459 — Ms.Thott.290.2º, fol. 8r. Wikimedia Commons ↗
Folio 1rGerman (Meyer)

Pflug-Stück

the plow device

Meyer's device from the Plow. Thrust the chest; if the parry sinks your blade, mutate upward into the throat.

The device teaches the cut-to-thrust mutation in reverse: a low thrust that, when pressed down by the parry, lifts back over and arrives at the throat from below.

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Pflug

the plow

Stand in Pflug — hilt at the hip, point levelled at the chest.

Next → Advance and thrust the chest · step 2: Stich in die Brust

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