Understanding what techniques are embedded in a drill or play can help you better learn how setup, execute, and transition from one technique to another while controlling the fight and maintaining your advantage.
Dude! What’s in My Stücke?
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Scott is the Founder, Lead Instructor, and current President of the St. Paul Freifechter. He started his journey into Historical Martial Arts in 2015, and founded the St. Paul Freifechter the spring of 2016 to focus his studies on the works of Joachim Meyer. He holds the rank of Fechter in both Longsword and Dussack in the Meyer Freifechter Guild. He developed and taught the ICe-IT method of analyzing and breaking down the components and techniques within Meyer’s drills, has taught workshops on the use of the Meyer Square, and has been a guest instructor at other clubs and large HEMA events in the midwestern US.
“Stump the Instructors” – June 15th, 2025
“Stump the Instructor” – an open-format session where students bring up concepts, techniques, or practices they’re finding challenging, vexing, etc with the instructors.
Sweeps/Slashing and Gripping Over (Übergieffen) were the topics for today….
4-Openings Solo drill – “How do I get there from here?”
Joachim Meyer wants us to be able to “execute any cut, from any posture, to any of the 4 openings, at any time”… This is how we learn to do just that.