Ultimate Meyer Pattern

Allen Karlsson

About this game

This is a game for anyone who is training Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA). It generates random drills that can be used for warmup or routine. The notation of cuts and thrusts is inspired by notes of the famous 16th century fencing master Joachim Meyer.

Just follow the numbers with cuts to the openenings, thereby the position of the number is the starting point. A black circle below a number means that you should thrust. The choice of long edge, short edge, flat, starting and end posture, using steps or being static is left to you. You can however choose the background colors of the cards for left and right hand, thus you have to change the hands according to the random picked color.

Now generate a random card and do it 50 times or 5 Minutes.

Have Fun! Allen Karlsson

Ratings and reviews

Some room for improvement that would make it 5 stars, but as is, it makes the normally tedious drill of cutting against a pell a little more fun and interesting. Also good for cutting practice. Just needs more customization options (like excluding cuts), and definitely needs a timed option to generate a new pattern after X seconds, so that you can keep going without manually resetting. Would also be nice to have a voice call out angles for you, in case you can't see the screen.

Meyer's attack patterns are a great way to increase your targeting skill and various usage of different strikes. This concept was created by a German master swordsman, however all striking arts can utilize this resource for building a better freeflow training.

Randomise Meyer Pattern Drills and save your favourites. Try Training every day to improve your Handling. Works best for bastartswords and dussacks. The yellow Ones Are left handed, Dots Mark thrusts. Includes zwirchhau and molines