Pennales fencing
Pennale fencing is a custom among striking student associations (Pennalkorporationen), primarily in Austria and Germany. The forms of the student scale of the 19th century are imitated, but with the light saber with a blunt blade. Cuts and stab wounds are excluded, the hit area in this type of fencing is mainly the saber arm, with certain variants also the whole upper body. The head, elbow, hand and genital area are adequately protected.
A distinction is made between saber parts with “semi-fixed stand”, “flying” and “standing” parts. With a semi-firm stance, the distance between the tympanic edges is measured and is not changed during a walk. Flying parts are characterized by the fact that the tympanic edges are allowed to move back and forth on the tympanic floor (approx. 15 meters). If the length of the length is upright, you don't have to change the position of your feet.
The reason for the saber-fencing of the beating middle school connections in Austria is to be found in the prohibition of coalitions in the interwar period, where all associations of middle school students were forbidden and led to the exclusion from school. Therefore, a type of scale length was sought that did not cause any visible or permanent wounds.
Exception: All Pennalkorporationen in Vienna and some Lower Austrian or Berlin connections (pB! Silesia Waidhofen, Wr.pB! Franko Cherusker, pB! Arminia Krems, pB! Germania Libera Mistelbach and fC! Unitas Klosterneuburg, PV! Borussia Berlin) fencing racket gauges, comparable the academic leagues, although there are no deep blows (high section).
prehistory
There is a lot of historical evidence that pupils - especially at university-propaedeutic Latin schools - were already engaged in fencing for self-defense and, like university students, wore fencing weapons. As early as 1670, students at the Ratsgymnasium in Hanover were banned from wearing swords . The punishment was expulsion from school. At that time, not only the primary school students, but also pupils of younger ages assumed the privileges of students, learned fencing, practiced horse riding, sometimes kept horses and strutted through the streets with swords. The ban seems to have been of little use: The school regulations from 1708 were limited to prohibiting the wearing of swords in church at mass, early sermons and catechism.
Even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , in his autobiographical work " Poetry and Truth " (Book Four), that he had already received as a student in Frankfurt in 1765 regular fencing lessons at two different fencing teachers and that he and his friends had already practiced with wooden weapons:
“We had now grown up, and according to the stroll we should learn to fence and ride among other things in order to defend ourselves occasionally and not have a student-like reputation on horseback. As far as the first point is concerned, we found such an exercise very pleasant: for we had long since known how to get haurapiere made of hazel sticks, neatly woven with baskets of willow to protect our hands. Now we were really allowed to get steel blades, and the rattle we did with them was very lively. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ From my life. Poetry and truth. Fourth book ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved from www.odysseetheater.com on March 16, 2014
