Guards

Guards
(Huten) for Medieval long-swords there are essentially 14 recognizable and effective fighting postures overall (called Leger or "position" in German and Guardia or Posta in Italian), of these five are major universal ones that correspond to High, Middle, Low, Hanging, and Back positions. In the later English systems of cut-and-thrust sword in the 1500’s, the Hanging guard was sometimes known as the Guardant (or Prima) ward, the high as Open ward, middle as Close ward (or Seconda), and low as the Variable ward, a side ward was sometimes Terza.

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