Play #604

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.218/#1) (Coda Lunga Larga with the Left Foot Forward vs. Porta di Ferro Stretta or Coda Lunga Stretta) Finding your enemy in porta di ferro stretta or in coda lunga stretta with the right foot forward, you will place yourself into coda lunga larga with your left foot forward; and there you will feint a rising falso to his sword hand, nonetheless transforming it into a tramazzone feint to the head, and as he goes to defend against this tramazzone, you subsequently make another feint, this time making a show of turning a roverso to his right temple, and with the greatest speed throwing a mandritto to his face or to his sword hand, or to his front leg that will then end in porta di ferro larga; but if you do not want to throw the mandritto, then after the aforementioned roverso feint, you may give him a rising falso to the sword hand in the manner of a montante; now you may also make this rising falso a feint, and quickly turn a tramazzone to the sword hand or to the sword arm that the descends into porta di ferro larga, then for your safety, you may subsequently withdraw the right foot back, giving him a roverso to the sword hand that descends into coda lunga larga.