A Further Halberd Play
Another Halberd play by Paulus Hector Mair, as translated by myself.
This one is titled “Habitus inferi ictus bipennis de latere utroque”
“The posture of a low strike with the halberd from either side.”
To this posture of a low strike from either side, which soon follows, with this tactic suitable for you, put the left foot forward, the turned point verges toward the opponent from above, and suddenly align the right hand with the right hip, and the halberd turns to the face of the enemy or you strike the chest. But if he turns away your impulse/in-strike, then rotate the halberd from his left to his right flank. Indeed, if he shall have made use of a twin strike against your face, place the left foot ahead of you in the same habit of striking the dead, containing the halberd in your right hand and apply it to his right femur, and with the blade you break downward from your right side onto the opponent’s strike, indeed with the right foot following, in-fix/affix the anterior point of the halberd to his chest. But if the enemy usurps the same against you, drag your left foot backward, and soon with the right taken back in the same manner, striving for equal standing, and certainly you come through with your foe, but suddenly shake his head violently with an [upward strike? Strike from above?]. If however, you remove his strike with the blade of your halberd, and if you seek his “shamefuls” with a strike, he will let you withdraw backward.
