A dusack or dussack (also dusägge and variants, [1] from Czech tesák "cleaver; hunting sword", lit. "fang") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, [2] as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing.

Messer or Dussack, from a fencer's perspective: the weapons. by Oskar ter Mors. Over the years, much (virtual) ink has been used to convince the HEMA community that the dussack is in fact its own type of steel weapon that deserves more love than it currently gets.

Our Bohemian Dussack is offered with a flex of F3 and a swelled tip that will accept a rubber tip. Allow 3 to 4 weeks to ship. Add a Nagel. Made from .13 thick 1095 spring steel. With or without nagel, right or left handed. 24.5″ blade length offered at F3 flex and with normal wide rounded tip only. Total weight: .97lbs (450g).

The dussack represented a short, single-edged weapon in a training environment. As usage of the dussack became more widespread, various schools turned use of the dussack into a sport as opposed to training for a real weapon.

2012年11月16日 · The dussack waster was one of the most important weapons in the fencing guilds for more than 250 years and as the 167h/17th cent battlefield dussack came to evolve into the proper sabre it could actually be thought of as living on even into our modern age.

A Dussack (also dusack, dysack, tesak, tuseckn, thuseckn, disackn, or dusägge, dusegge, dusegg, from the Czech "tesák") is a large type of knife often with a long cutting edge in the front and a shorter in the back.

2017年9月10日 · The dussack is one of the classic weapons that date all the way back to the early 1600’s in Europe; and due to its simple yet functional design, the weapon was highly favored by a lot of commoners who required a weapon that could be utilized for a variety of purposes.

2014年1月2日 · MEYER DUSSACK -The Dussack in Motion - 2014 . v.1.2 . Roger Norling . This material may not be distributed in parts or in whole, in any form, without a written permission of the author, Roger Norling of Gothenburg Historical Fencing School and HEMAC [email protected]

Published in 1570, Joachim Meyer‘s book provides a comprehensive system of fencing that covers a wide variety of weapons including the queen of the one-handed swords, the dusack (also spelled dussack).

2023年8月5日 · Another significant contribution to the art of fencing from the kingdom of Bohemia is the dussack, which would become a signature weapon of the late Germanic fencing tradition. The word dussack apparently originates in the Czech Tesák, meaning fang, and might have become popular among German speakers during the Hussite Wars in the early 1400s.