Play #359
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.158/#1) (Coda Lunga Stretta with the Left Foot Forward vs. Coda Lunga Stretta or Porta di Ferro Stretta) If your enemy is set in coda lunga stretta, or in porta di ferro stretta with the right foot forward, you will be set in coda lunga stretta with the left forward; and there you will gather the left foot near the right, throwing a falso that goes not to hit him; then passing subsequently with your right foot forward, you will make a mandritto feint, that turns towards the head or sword hand, but in this feint, you will make a half turn of the hand; and so you will make another feint of pushing a thrust to the left side of his chest; and he wanting to defend against the thrust in some way, you will subsequently pass with the left foot towards his right, and make a sfalsata of your sword driving a punta ferma to the right side of his chest, the sword going into coda lunga stretta; and then you will withdraw the left foot back, turning a mezzo mandritto to the sword hand that does not pass porta di ferro stretta.