Play #68
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.72/#2) (Porta di Ferro Larga vs. Sword in Presence) If your adversary is placed with the sword in presence with the right or left foot forward, and you are positioned in porta larga di ferro with the right foot forward; there you will throw a rising falso to the sword and his sword hand and immediately you will pass the left foot forward, traversing towards right side and turning subsequently another rising falso that passes through porta larga di ferro and goes to find the hand of the enemy and does not fly past guardia di faccia; and thence you will do a half turn of the hand directing the point of your sword towards his sword hand and in that tempo the right foot needs go near the left and the sword will go to guardia di lioncorno; then subsequently you will pass the left foot forward throwing an imbrocatta sopramano to the sword hand and sword arm that descends into cinghiara porta larga di ferro; and if the enemy responds to you with some cut, you immediately will pass the right foot in a great pass forward, defending yourself with a falso that does not pass guardia di faccia; then you will send him presently a mandritto to the face that descends into porta larga di ferro; and then immediately for safety you will retire the right foot backwards throwing at him a roverso traversato to the sword hand that ends in coda lunga larga.