Dueling Long Shield [LT]

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

I think that someone expecting a duel would spend their 30-60 days training in whatever style they were going to fight with.

I think the idea was that people that wanted to be professional champions would learn it and then hire themselves out to wealthy defendants. These guys would have to master all weapons that might be used in a duel (judicial or otherwise). More commonly people that were studying under German masters expected to learn a bunch of different weapons, the same way that people taking Martial Arts today might expect to learn a mix of grappling and striking.

Most people wouldn't bother learning to use a duelling shield, so they would have to start learning then. And it might be the first style they learned.

That doesn't fit with the Fechtbuchs that include it as part of a comprehensive style. Are you aware of any masters who taught only Judicial Dueling Shields?