Author : Hugh Knight
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557385261
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)
Book Synopsis The Play of the Axe: Medieval Pollaxe Combat by : Hugh Knight
Download or read book The Play of the Axe: Medieval Pollaxe Combat written by Hugh Knight and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many new books on historical European martial arts are being produced regularly, this is the first series of books devoted entirely to armored combat, and this is the first book to teach the lost art of pollaxe combat that has been produced in over 550 years. Written by a well-known scholar and instructor of the German school of historical combat with more than 15 years of real armored combat experience, this book will teach you all you need to know to learn the knight art of the pollaxe. You will learn everything from fundamentals such as footwork, guards, simple strikes and displacements to more than sixty elegant techniques for using the axe to how to acquire the necessary equipment to practice to how to teach yourself the art. Lavishly illustrated with more than 380 photographs, this book is an amazing introduction to one of the least known but most important arts of combat in the knightly repertoire. NOTE: This is the perfect-bound edition of this book.