Wednesday HEMA, No. 1

I'm planning on doing a weekly post on a range of HEMA-related topics every Wednesday. Mostly, this will be GIFs of manuscript being pulled of in competition/sparring settings, like my earlier post did, likely with some extra context and analysis added on.

The first one in this series is a nicely executed Duplieren by Cristoffer Holm on Axel Pettersson, in a competition that started each exchange in a bind.

Notice how Holm seems to let himself go soft in the bind for a brief moment before exploding into the Winding action behind Pettersson's blade, taking Pettersson by surprise. He also immediately covers any possible afterblow after making the hit. Good stuff.