(p.100/#3) (Porta di Ferro Larga as Patiente): If you are set in porta di ferro larga with your right foot forward and he throws a mandritto to strike your head, in the tempo that he makes this mandritto, you will throw a rising mezzo mandritto to his sword hand; and note that this attack may be employed against any other blow the enemy should throw, making your sword end then in porta di ferro stretta.