Norman Knight

The ultimate WMA on horseback-thread - Martial Arts Planet

WMA/jousting was mentioned elsewhere, and I thought that it's worth a thread.

There exists several manuals on warfare on horseback. What most of them have in common is that they build on the footed-section, and mounted techniques are usually depictured in the same manuals as footed techniques, and in Fiore, you are supposed to read the manual as a whole, you're supposed to build on previous chapters, and should not pay too much attention to the weapons wielded, more the principles. So when you first do the wrestling-section, you're supposed to take the principles shown there with you into the following sections, etc.

What we see on mounted WMA, is (of course) the wielding of a lance, where we see a lot of deflections and controlling of the centre, and parry-repostes.
Here is a picture of fiore mounted, surprisingly hard to come across, had to find it on the getty museum, actually. (I guess most of the fiore-groups out there is most interrested in the foot-section, and don't bother putting up the mounted pictures..)

We allso see a lot of longsword wielded onehended, applying a lot of the same principles as on foot (other than you have four legs instead of two) Here's a link to a picture from Solothurner Fechtbuch

More special, is perhaps the extent wrestling is applied allso on horseback, here's a pic from Talhoffer:

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