Techniques in the Wild #18 - Schaytelhaw

Techniques in the Wild is a series that features clips from sparring in which manuscript techniques occur spontaneously. In this video, we can see various examples of a Schaitelhaw in action. The Schaitelhaw is one of the so-called ’hidden strikes’ from the Liechtenauer corpus. It is supposed to break the position of Alber (hands and point low). You perform it by cutting straight through the middle from an upper guard into basically a langenort-ish position, with the point ending up somewhere near or in th