One-Handed Rising Cut with a Halberd

“Bind onto them from your left toward their right with your blade on theirs and jerk the same out and away from you in an unexpected shove. Pull quickly back around your head and toward your left. After you have given your shaft an impetus, release the left hand in this pull around and cut across from below at their head with one hand (from your right toward their left). Immediately twist your right palm back away from you and recapture your halberd with the [left hand] (which is still moving upward from below). Afterwards, cut quickly down from above toward their head with both hands, with a step outward. You should be able to suppress their halberd down with this cut (if they were to thrust at you during this). Afterwards, thrust quickly in response.“ - Fencing Master Joachim Meyer, 1570 Translated by Rebecca Garber tldr; Beat their halberd aside. Transfer the momentum into a one handed cut from below. Cut back down with two hands to either attack them or sup
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