The Art of Swordsmanship by Hans Lecküchner (Armour and Weapons)

Great, easy to read translations.

Good book, but you have to understand that it is a translation of the original text, complete with the quirks in digesting it that that entails. Make use of the glossary, inspect the text and images closely. Reading it alongside video interpretations you can find on YouTube works pretty well.

Good messer read

My club use this book. It is indeed hard to read so I would say read as a group. Later on when you look at other messer sources it might be worthwhile to reference back to this one.

EXCELLENT

This is the best translation yet for Lekuchner's messer. It's a primary source, so do not expect anything but a faithful translation of the 15th century text. The author offers no interpretation, and that's a very good thing - this is a primary source on the langes messer made available to an English speaking audience and it's offered without apology or compromise. Forgeng has done an excellent job here.

A very interested read, but I found I struggled as am amature Sword fighter to effectively grasped the explanations. But it's very detailed and something I'll definitely come back to.

It's a decent book as long as you just want to know about Leckuchner's sytem. Otherwise it's not a good book, and not worth the price. Though it's really informational, its design is really bad. Images are small and only in Black & White with very little contrast; spaces between pages are largely wasted; types are squeezed together in big paragraphs...It's a painful process to just read the book. Also, this book is only a translation of Leckucher's original manuscript, as it doesn't come with some modern interpretations of each techniques which made it hard to understand. It's worth notice that a lot of terminologies are used in this book. Though they appear quite frequently in the modern HEMA systems regarding German school of fencing, it would still be very hard to read and understand this book if the reader doesn't familiar with German school of fencing or HEMA.

What a book containing illustrations from the original about fighting with a Messer (a sword that was called a knife to get around a legal loophole). There are 100s of technics to be interpreted and practiced.

とても良い本ですが、当然ながら全て英語です。理解できない内容に悔しさを覚えますが、自分の頭の足りなさを棚にあげるのは著者に失礼なので、自分は内容が読めないバカでもこの本は素晴らしいと思います。 止むを得ず星を４にしたのは、図版がもう少し大きくして欲しかったと、色が薄くてよく見えないイラストが残念な部分です。良い内容だけに図版はもっと大きくして欲しかったです。

and he was chuffed to bits with it! apparently Hans Lecküchner was one of the most knowledgable and skilled Historical European Martial Art's Masters of his time, and this work by him is unprecedented in it scope and detail compared to his contemporaries. If you're into studding H.E.M.A, this book comes recomeneded.

good companion to a serie of videos about Messer...

Illustrazioni a colori, testo eccellente, prezzo ottimo dato il contenuto. Perfetto!