Play #154
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.98/#3) (Porta di Ferro Stretta vs. Coda Lunga Larga with the Left Foot Forward; as Patiente) If you are set in porta di ferro stretta with your right foot forward and your enemy is set in coda lunga larga with his left foot forward; if he throws a rising falso to your sword hand to then turn a roverso fendente to your face or your sword arm, you will be mindful that in the tempo after he has thrown the falso and is turning the aforesaid roverso, you will throw a falso traversato to his sword hand. But to give him reason for throwing the roverso, you will knock his falso to the ground with the true edge of your sword in the manner of throwing a mezzo roverso, so that now you can easily wound him with the aforesaid falso traversato, which will rise up into a position similar to guardia sopra braccio, and then immediately you will set yourself into porta di ferro stretta.