Play #686

Created: 1/24/2026

(p.242/#2) (Sword and Targa) (Coda Lunga Stretta vs. Any) Your enemy being in any guard he wants, you will place yourself in coda lunga stretta with the right foot forward; and there you will gather the left foot behind the right, making a falso tondo that goes overhead, and this will go not to wound the enemy, but to bring your sword into guardia alta, and the targa will be extended well forward in defense of the head; subsequently you will give him a mandritto tondo across his left temple without moving the feet; and then presently passing with the right foot forward you will feint a mandritto across his flank and if he should try to defend this in some manner, you will strike his left temple with that same mandritto that you feinted with, then you will stop your sword in porta di ferro alta.