Play #730
Created: 1/24/2026
(p.256/#3) (Sword vs. Opposite Handed) (Coda Lunga Larga with the Left Foot Forward vs Coda Lunga Stretta or Porta di Ferro Stretta) If your enemy were set in coda lunga stretta or in porta di ferro stretta with his right foot forward, you will place yourself in coda lunga larga with the left foot forward; and here you will give him a rising falso traversato to the sword hand, and subsequently you will turn a rising roverso ridoppio to the sword hand, allowing the sword to turn and go into coda lunga lunga; then you will immediately feint another rising falso to his sword hand and as he wants to defend against this feint, you will presently pass the right foot forward, making a sfalsata of your sword under his, and putting his sword aside with your false edge; then you will be able to subsequently make a mandritto to his face or across his sword arm that descends into porta di ferro larga; and so if he should try to attack you here you will immediately withdraw the right foot back, striking his sword hand with a roverso that descends into coda lunga larga.