Meyer Longsword Guards/Stances

Meyer's 1570 text provides a description of the many guard positions in his system, which seems overly complicated, however it's important to remember two things:
1) All positions are just variations on the 4 fundamental/principal guards - Tag, Alber, Ochs, and Pflug.
2) The positions are transitional points as you move through cuts and parries, so occur organially during your fencing motions - they're generally not intended to be positions to wait in at length for your opponent's attack.,

[@622PSS]

A comprehensive review within a minute. 😊

[@DTMOutlawNews]

Excellent! I was hoping to find a video to name the different guards/stances.
Thank you!

[@jojitsu5620]

Your channel is hands down the best Hema channel out there. Thank you so much 🙏

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

Thanks. 😊
Definitely not the best, but hopefully useful.

[@ventusstrife6715]

Great！That is the first time on youtube to see someone did the meyer style Eisenport right.

[@gavatron1980]

Crazy Meyer stances

[@LancelotVantuyckom]

Best one i found. Thx

[@nobblergaming7457]

Your form is great! For how long have you trained?

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

Thanks :) I started historical fencing around a decade ago (with a few breaks along the way)

[@DogsaladSalad]

Damn that was cleeeaaan

[@justanothercomment4701]

Dan, do you think that Meyer's guards and cutting mechanics work better with longer grips (greater than 29cm?)

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

To be completely honest I don’t think it makes all that much difference. I use both longer and shorter grip lengths and while there’s some difference in mechanics it’s not earth shattering.
The longer pommel does give significant advantages in the bind and handworks though, and allows a closer grip position if you need it so you get the best of both worlds :)

[@luskarian4055]

Could you clarify what the Bretchfenster guard is? I've seen all sorts of explainations from slanted kron to twisted tag

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

Good question. I think it’s a bit of a combination that describes a situation rather than a very formal position that is one very specific thing.
There’s a video taken in class a very long time ago on my channel:
ua-cam.com/video/uCKs9wIr4uk/v-deo.html

[@oliveraneiva6807]

where is Kronhut from?

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

Kron (described without the suffix “hut”) is directly from Meyer’s 1570 text for this video.

[@oliveraneiva6807]

@@DanielPopeScholarVictoria Thank you for responding to my comment. I apologize for how thoughtless it was. I found the description I was looking for on 1.35v and illustration on plate F (center). Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skill with us.

[@joannep5785]

Pft. Didn't evan kill the wall in this one.

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

I know! Disappointing right!?

[@Burntbiber]

So whats the differce between eisenport and pflug?

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

It’s a combination of Blade angle, position of the point, guard angle, and position on or around the centreline.
Eisenport is more of a parrying guard for fighting defensively, while pflug leads more naturally into winding, absetzen, and so on.

[@Burntbiber]

@@DanielPopeScholarVictoria thank you for the clarification

[@hubertlast9777]

alber doesnt translate to fool rather funny or foolish

[@DanielPopeScholarVictoria]

I’m no expert on Early new high German so rely on translations from Forgeng’s translation as well as Chidester, Winslow, and all of the other folk over at wiktenauer.com who have provided fairly consistent translations.

[@hubertlast9777]

@@DanielPopeScholarVictoria everything else was translated flawlessly