Strike fast and use the rear end of your pole arm - Lesson XX @OliverJanseps

Strike fast and use the rear end of your pole arm - Lesson XX @OliverJanseps

Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

If you think the Partisan did not use the rear end to strike, you are proofed wrong.
We are doing HEMA and have a look in old books from the 17th cent. and old fencing masters wrote down drills we are doing today. one of them is this one by Matthias Schlüter.

Strike fast and use the rear end of your pole arm - Lesson XX

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Strike fast and use the rear end of your pole arm - Lesson XX