The video-book combines two products: an e-book and a video playlist filmed directly from the text of the eleventh chapter of Meyer's 1570 treatise. It contains every play the chapter describes — the onset from all positions and guards — along with the methods for pressing an opponent safely and building a tactical sequence. You read it and see it at once. Essential material for any advanced fencer.
The eleventh chapter of Meyer's 1570 treatise is devoted to the onset — to what happens before the blades meet. Meyer does not build it on a single universal opening. He works through position by position and guard by guard, showing what to come out with from each one.
What matters just as much is what he built into those plays. In Meyer, the onset never ends with the first cut. Into the individual plays he worked a range of methods for pressing an opponent safely, and for turning that first movement into a tactical sequence that carries on. The chapter is therefore not a list of opening blows but a whole body of tactical procedures and methods for working from every position.
How the video-book works
The video-book is two separate products and the link between them. The e-book carries the text of the chapter; the video playlist shows it performed. The videos are not a loose extra — their content follows the text of the book and this particular chapter, play by play, so that for every passage you know what it actually looks like.
That link is the real value. A fencing source describes movement in words that made sense to people who already knew the movement. The modern reader comes at it the other way round: text first, movement afterwards — and usually a great deal of time spent guessing what it was meant to look like. The video-book cuts that step short. You are not left to work out your own reading of the old masters' instructions; you have the text and its performance side by side.
What the video-book contains
Who it is for
For advanced fencers who have the basic cuts and positions in hand and want to move on to how a fight opens — and how an opening becomes a sequence. And for instructors who need material on this subject they can build a lesson around.
The video-book is not a substitute for training or for an instructor's guidance. The performances follow Meyer's text and keep to its reading.
Joachim Meyer 1570, Longsword Chapter 11 EN
45,00 €
