H17: The windings (Winden)
"Mark, this is a lesson and an admonition of Hanging
and of Winding with the sword; therein you shall well
meditate on and take account of, so that you boldly drive with
agility and break against the others fencers' techniques
correctly, and drive boldly against him therefrom. When the
hangings are the Ox above on both sides, these are the two
upper hangings; and the Plow below on both sides, these are
the lower two hangings. From the Four Hangings you shall
bring Eight Windings, four from the Ox, and four from the
Plow, and the same Eight Windings you shall further thus
consider and correctly weigh, so that from every particular
Winding you shall drive the Three Wounders (that is a hew, a
stab, and a slice)."
"Here learn that the winden are the real art and the
base of all fencing with the sword and from these all other
techniques and methods come from. And one rarely is a good
fencer without the windings. Just as the Leychmeister disdain
them and say that fencing from the winding is weak and they
call it from the shortened sword because that they are done
simple and stupid. And they mean that these are fenced from
the long sword which is done with outstretched arms and
extended sword and also aggressively with all strength of the
body only by pressing themselves forward. And this is painful
to watch! If one stretches just as running after a rabbit this is
not the way, neither the windings nor Liechtenauers art,
because there is no strength against (the opposing strength)!
Whoever does it differently should prefer strength."
There are several pages explaining the windings. Rather than provide a longer sample of the text, visuals provide a better description. This video has more difficult audio to follow but the exercises they provide give an excellent example of winding here.