Five reasons why DDS German Longsword Tuesday uses a lower Vom Tag

Ringeck early 1500s

There are, of course, several ways people did Vom Tag - Keith Farrel & Alex Bourdas have a whole section in their excellent book German Longsword Study Guide.

We, however do the lower one with the cross guard hovering just above or below the armpit, and the pommel -- on longer swords - round about the high medieval waistline.

We do this because our style comes from the Von Danzig family of texts and think the evidence points to this.

[Edited because I made Claire G sound too certain.] 

What we teach in Tuesday's German Longsword class

Well, I was going to teach Krumphau tonight, but the study group found what looks like a much better way of doing it, and I'm not teaching it until I know it really works...

...and that's us. In a nutshell, we teach only those reconstructed Longsword techniques that actually work when we try to break them. If they break, then either our interpretation is wrong, or we're not fit or fast enough.