Step 1 of 3Augsburg, 15th c.
High point-forward guard, the source of the thrust.
Talhoffer, Alte Armatur und Ringkunst, 1459 — Ms.Thott.290.2º, fol. 7r. Wikimedia Commons ↗
Folio 1rGerman (Talhoffer)

Entgegenstich

— the counter-thrust exchange

Talhoffer's plate-by-plate counter-thrust. They thrust from Ochs; you parry from Pflug; you thrust back into the opening they leave.

The classic Absetzen drawn rather than written. Talhoffer shows the exchange across three plates: provocation, deflection, riposte. The line of the riposte is the line they vacated by attacking.

The play, step by step

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Sie stechen aus dem Ochs

— they thrust from the Ox

The opponent stands in Ochs and shoots a thrust at your face.

Next → Catch the thrust from Pflug · step 2: Versatz aus dem Pflug

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