Play #185

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.107/#2) (Coda Lunga Stretta with the Left Foot Forward vs. Any) Finding your enemy in what guard he wants, you will be set in coda lunga stretta with the left foot forward and there with refined skill you will make a falso tondo not to wound him, but to then immediately pass with the right foot forward, making a show of preparing a mandritto to the head, but nevertheless allowing your sword to turn as though throwing a molinetto, throwing at him presently a roverso to the face or the sword hand or to the front leg that will descend into coda lunga larga; and this done you will immediately retire the right foot back throwing an imbrocatta to the face or the sword hand that falls into cinghiara porta larga di ferro; and if he responds to you with some attack, you will subsequently pass the right foot forward defending yourself against his attack with a falso, then giving him immediately a roverso to his sword hand, and to the front leg, that descends into coda lunga larga; and if the enemy throws some attack here to wound you, you will strike his sword hand with a rising falso, thrown such that it does not go past guardia di faccia, and without any delay you will throw a roverso to his front leg that descends into coda lunga larga; and immediately you will withdraw the right foot back throwing a rising falso to his sword hand that ends similar to guardia sopra braccio; and then you will immediately pass the right foot forward feinting a roverso spinto to the right temple, and as he goes to defend himself, you will subsequently turn a mandritto fendente to his face or to his sword hand that descends to porta di ferro larga; then this done, you will retire the right foot back setting yourself in coda lunga stretta.