Übergreiffen

German (“Gripping Over”) Using the fingers of the right hand to wrap around or over the quillon (i.e., fingering). Leckuechner’s late 15th century fechtbuch described it from the Ochs position as: “Grip with your right hand over your cross guard into the blade, so that your fingers are standing in the flat of the blade. If somebody is hitting at you, hit him with strength that you just outdo his sword and twitch him your flat of the blade at his right ear and go high in a displacement.”