Thank God, finally someone who has taken European martial arts! Everyone on this forum thought I was crazy. To those of you who didn't believe me, fye on you! (Just kidding).

Everyone thinks that Europeans had no means of self-defense whatsoever. Well, they did!

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"Non nobis, Domine, sed tuo Nomini da gloriam"

Translation: "Not to us, O Lord, but to Thy Name give glory!"

Oath of the Knights templar. Who were the Knights' templar? In laymen's terms, some bad-a$$ warrior monks who protected pilgrims on their way to the Holy land.