Play #159

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.99/#3) (Coda Lunga Stretta vs. Porta di Ferro Larga as Patiente) If your enemy is settled in porta di ferro larga with his right foot forward and you are placed in coda lunga stretta with your right foot forward; there you will be mindful that if he wants to give you a falso and roverso, with the goal of reaching you then with a rising falso to your sword hand: then in the moment after he has made the first falso, and is now turning the roverso, you will strike his sword hand with a falso traversato that goes to a sort of guardia sopra braccio; and then as he throws the second falso to your sword hand, in that moment you will throw a roverso “discharged” across his wrist, and I say discharged, because you will make it without extending your arm much, and will in this way keep yourself safe from his falso, and then your sword will go into coda lunga larga; and then you will immediately place yourself into porta di ferro stretta. 39 The counter helps to clarify this