Explanation and demonstration of mounted techniques from the German manuscripts of the 15th century. We explore two sets of related techniques.
We performed each technique in walk and in canter, Usually riders will prefer to fight in canter, gallop, petit galop, Carrière or Tummeln (terre-à-terre, mezair, courbette) if they manage. Even though the speed is kept deliberately slow, as would be the case in real application, the added power of the gait adds considerable force to the attacks. The rider can vary the speed of the attack considerably at will.
On one occasion you can see how we filmed this, in 'passades' or back and forth attack runs with very tight turns at the end. This was the bread and butter for Classical riding in the period. This means the fighters end up meeting one another 'unter Augen' (literally 'under eyes') which means frontal approaches. The techniques 'unter Augen' are distinct from attacks from behind, where the horses are running in the same direction.
Note that one of the images shows an approach where the horses pass left to left, but the text says this is also used when passing right to right.
For the purposes of consistency to compare the different techniques we stayed with the right side to right side approach.