Play #45
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.66/#1) (Porta di Ferro Alta vs. Porta di Ferro Larga) (As Patiente) If your enemy remains in porta di ferro larga with the right foot forward and you are in porta di ferro alta with the right foot forward; he can throw a rising falso to your sword that does not pass over your sword at all, and he may then quickly pass a little forward with his right foot, giving you a rising falso or thrust to your sword hand, setting himself then in porta di ferro stretta; n ote that if after he has delivered the first falso and you shall beaten it to the ground and he then went to subsequently give you a thrust or mandritto to your face or sword arm; note that you may throw another rising falso to better strike him and this will work even if does not make some follow up movement following your response to his initial falso. x