escaping a bind by sliding the sword's point out from underneath the blade and then stabbing to another opening. Zucken: "tugging", a technique used in a strong bind between blades in which a combatant goes weak in the bind so as to disengage his blade from the bind and stabs or hews to the other side of the other combatant's blade. This technique is based upon the concept of using weakness against strength. Durchlauffen: "running-through", a technique by which one combatant "runs through" his opponent's attack to initiate grappling with him. Händedrücken: "pressing of hands", the execution of an Unterschnitt ("undercut") followed by an Oberschnitt ("overcut") such that the wrists of the opponent are sliced all the way around. Hängen: "hanging" (upper/lower, left/right) Winden: "Winding", the combatant moves the strong side of his blade to the weak side of the opponent's blade to gain leverage while keeping his point online with the opponent's opening. There are eight variations. Footwork The Fechtbücher themselves rarely if ever mention complex footwork, which caused a debate among historians whether or not there was complex footwork in Liechtenauer's system. However, the fencing master Hugo Wittenwiler strongly implies that "fancy footwork" was seen as impractical and even dangerous in the medieval and early modern period. Fencing master Joachim Meyer later added Italian-inspired footwork to his style of longsword fencing in the late 16th century (techniques such as the "Ausfall", the lunge, which was seemingly unknown or unused in contemporary German swordsmanship of the time. Paulus Hector Mair makes no mention of it in his Fechtbuch which is also from the 16th century. Mair was a contemporary of Mayer). The passing step: moving the rear foot in front while following with the behind one, all while transferring weight and stability from one foot to the other. The gathering step: a quick movement with the forward foot while the backfoot stabilizes the fast momentum by being focused sideways. The offline step: this step begins by moving forward, making a tilt, moving slight backward movement and then attacking with the strong side of the other foot. Armoured combat (Harnischfechten) Combat in full plate armour made use of the same weapons as Blossfechten, the longsword and dagger (possibly of special make optimized for piercing the openings in armour); but the techniques were entirely different. Attacking an opponent in plate armour is carried out in two ways: percussive force or penetration