In 1700 student fraternities in many German universities have ceremonial sword duel with the right of way. Each match of the university community housing has different rules, known as a comment. Commenting on the regulated weapons to use, the number of exchanged spirit in a sentence and the number of sentences of shooters They also participate in regulating the amount of protective equipment that can be used.
There are two main types of weapons used in the academic fencing – the foil and saber heavy and their descendants. The University of Jena and the University of Leipzig, putting a knife or sword handle plate (tellerrapier flame), generally similar to the struggle against DU SSI or in mourning sword (the predecessor of modern SSI) is a very handy weapon allow students to theological duel. Candidates for the ministry was not allowed to have visible scars duel, but the pole point located in an area covered by the shirt is quite socially acceptable.
There are at least three generations of academic fencing teams, starting with a heavy sword. This weapon is very similar to the cavalry sword with a curved blade and handle a heavy basket. The handles are placed at a distance and a jump is necessary, although in most systems, the fund had remained in place. The objectives include the head, torso, sword, arm and leg. And deaths Cut arteries are rare.
The sword evolved Schlaeger (aka haurapier or cutting pliers), made the wings of the blade of the weapon with a square cap with a clearly defined front and rear edges of the tip of the blade, and a strong handle basket. In Schlaeger weapons is a very strong way, surrounded by a distance equal to the length of the blade, and no movement of the foot. The exchange handles a series of circular cuts in the period, followed by a brief rest. The game stops if a shooter is cut assistance to a physician believes that serious or when the agreed number of periods have been met.
Schlaeger play combines attack and keeping the protective layer that reduces the chances of circumcision. As the water today, goggles, neck protector, protective apron and hands, measurable Schlaeger has a low potential for serious injury. However, the reductions are real, and fencing in an attack must not show signs of cowardice, a combination that require significant resistance to the pressure of a real winning edge protection.
One of the most outstanding academic weapons is their ability to be disassembled and transported in secret. Tweezers and is easy to disassemble the protector of the blade and the hilt. Hiding Shopping heavy sword or Schlaeger is harder, but you can get. This capability is important at different times in the academic fencing is prohibited or considered socially unacceptable. Students match the body, even when prohibited, as they were during the Third Reich and the beginning of the period after World War II year II, managed to maintain their martial traditions.
The common features great duel before the Second World War are now much smaller and not as socially valuable as they were when grief is the scar in male society. However, today this form of fencing survives in several German universities and teachers still teach Schlaeger complex combinations of time requirements for weapons.
