Great look at provocation. Love the experimental reconstruction to figure out how to make this thing work in a "real fight". I'm not a Meyer scholar, more studied in RDL, so the idea of intentionally smacking someone with the flat seems counterintuitive. I'm imagining prellhau as a "less than lethal" measure for dueling as a "hey my guy....I could kill you if I wanted, but I'm choosing not to". Does that seem about right?
Hi John, Thanks! It's definitely a sporting artifice. If one is playing to the bleeding scalp wound, using the whip of the feder to score a wound around an opponent's guard makes perfect sense,
Great look at provocation. Love the experimental reconstruction to figure out how to make this thing work in a "real fight". I'm not a Meyer scholar, more studied in RDL, so the idea of intentionally smacking someone with the flat seems counterintuitive. I'm imagining prellhau as a "less than lethal" measure for dueling as a "hey my guy....I could kill you if I wanted, but I'm choosing not to". Does that seem about right?
Hi John,
Thanks!
It's definitely a sporting artifice. If one is playing to the bleeding scalp wound, using the whip of the feder to score a wound around an opponent's guard makes perfect sense,