Dreynevent 2024

A little look through tactical decisionmaking, biomechanics, semantics, geometry and defense.

In this session, we will explore foundational principles of battlefield combat, including close combat from knife fighting, skirmishing geometry, and spearwork mechanics for generating power.

Fiore’s Dagger Masters show us several aspects of fighting with (or against) a dagger. You must know them all.

Second only to the spear in its widespread use on the battlefield, the use of a cut‐and‐thrust polearm, usually with a hook and an overall length of ca. 240 cm has numerous applications for laceration, trapping and hooking.

Making choices is hard, especially when someone tries to hit you with a messer. In this workshop, Oskar will present a cross section of Lecküchner’s fight book, focussed on (eliminating) decision making.

Experience the highlights of early renaissance dagger fighting. Be prepared to hit the ground!

This rapier stuff is dumb. As making a lunge is a tempo, how can I attack my opponent if they are simply waiting for me to do that?

Could Ringeck’s plays from streychen be the key to understanding how Liechtenauer created the art?

Shephards strike and Brain blow – having fun with Meyer`s staff!

Learn to defend yourself with a sabre against polearms while looking absolutely dashing!

Move past sword‐tag! Explore how swords cut, and what modern fencers can do to learn to cut correctly and to enhance their swordplay with effective cutting technique.

Stop giving your opponent an easy time. Make your defence as offensive as Liechtenauer would have wanted.

Increase the level of your training and employ HALAG rules and echelon! Different scenarios offer different challenges. Learn all about it!

How to exercise Fühlen in an effective and instinctive way.

Liechtenauer tells us not to do what the “common fencers do”...but what did they do, and why was it common? Because it works!

Wrap your cape around your arm, so you can elegantly harm – Rapier & Cape, the epitome of elegance.

An elegant and simple fencing style, by a 75 years old master with a lot of experience, the class includes funny and unusual exercises.

The mysteries of a lost German manuscript from the 16th century.

Free Fencing with little or no protection gear!

Have you ever thought that Ringen (wrestling) is too complicated? Look no further than Wallerstein section C – with only eight techniques to smite them all!

Pressure and distance management for Meyer's staff techniques & how to be able to use every part of the staff successfully in a fight.

Federschwert? Experts know, how much do you know about them? Come and test new replicas that bring us closer to the original swords.

Can’t decide whether you like Longsword or Messer more? Why not Messer up your Longsword with Peter Falkner?

Having problems making messer techniques work like in the sources? Let's have some lightbulb moments in this workshop!

Damn, a tournament is coming up in 5 weeks! I got this important deadline at work, and the city trip with my loved one is also around the corner! How to prepare with the limited time I have, without getting booted out of work and/or the bedroom? No clue - let’s ask Bert, maybe he got an idea…

Be 1.33x more effective: Fight efficient and smarter, not harder!

They say the book is limited to communicate complex body motions... the screen overcomes the still image, but also has limits of its own.

Who were the knights, who were encouraged to fight on the battlefield, but forbidden to take part in duels of honour? How could a runaway murdering duellist be openly accepted and honoured among the ranks of the greatest heroes of Europe? Find out at Dreynevent.