Play #70
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.73/#1) (Coda Lunga Stretta vs. Coda Lunga Stretta) Your enemy being in coda lunga stretta with the right foot forwards and you being settled in the same guard; there with skillful awareness you will feint a thrust to the left side of his chest, and as he moves to defend it, you will immediately make a sfalsata of your sword under his, displacing his sword with the false edge of yours off to his left side; and now you will pass the left foot towards his right side throwing a mandritto traversato to his face, but doing so warily, for if your adversary shows a desire to defend himself from this mandritto by not allowing you to push his sword to the side with your false edge, but to push his sword into yours driving it towards his right side so that you are not in position to throw the aforementioned mandritto, then you will immediately turn your sword under his pushing a thrust to left side of his chest; and if he should defend against this thrust, you will immediately pass with the right foot forward making a half turn of the hand throwing an imbrocatta to his chest and making the sword stop in porta di ferro stretta.