Play #257

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.128/#1) (Coda Lunga Stretta vs. Coda Lunga Larga with Either Foot Forward) If your adversary is set in coda lunga larga with either foot forward you will be in coda lunga stretta with the right foot forward; and there you will stay attentive that if he wants to make a falso and mandritto from coda lunga larga or if he wants to lift a rising falso for some other design, then you will make a point to do the following: in the tempo that he lifts the rising falso, you will beat it with a 44 Tempo is here translated as motion. For explanation see The Complete Renaissance Swordsman. roverso, and then immediately push a thrust to his chest, or throw a rising falso to his face, and whichever of these two attacks you choose to do you, you will not stop, but will subsequently pass the left foot towards his right side, giving him a roverso fendente to the head or the sword arm the sword ending then in coda lunga stretta, and your right leg following behind the left, and note that you may make this attack without passing the left foot, instead stepping somewhat forward with the right foot.