Play #728
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.256/#1) (Sword vs. Opposite Handed) (Coda Lunga Larga with the Left Foot Forward vs. Coda Lunga Larga, Coda Lunga Stretta, or Porta di Ferro Stretta) Finding your enemy in coda lunga larga, or coda lunga stretta, or porta di ferro stretta with his right foot forward, you will be able to place yourself in coda lunga larga with the left foot forward; and here you will give him a rising falso traversato to his sword hand that ends in coda lunga alta; after that then you will be able to feint another falso in the same way, and nonetheless as he goes to defend himself in some manner, you will step a little forward with your left foot, giving him a mandritto tondo to his sword arm, or his sword hand, or his front leg; then presently you will turn a roverso to his hand that descends into coda lunga larga; and if wants to throw some attack to your head, you can defend yourself by going with the sword into guardia di testa, passing your right foot forward in this tempo; and subsequently you will take his sword from the outside and giving him then a mandritto wherever you please, and note that this presa needs to be made with the greatest speed; and should you notice that you are unable to make this presa, you will subsequently turn a mandritto across his sword arm that descends into porta di ferro larga following in this same tempo the left foot a little behind the other.