The fifth in a series on the use of the Two-Handed Greatsword (Spada duo Mani), every Monday, this is from the Opera Nova of Achille Marozzo (1536). Performed with a synthetic blade due to public access, this is part five of ten from chapter 161.

These are great for your posture, balance, timing, distance management etc. Recording yourself also helps you pick up on flaws you may not otherwise be aware of. For example: in the last part of this video, combining the sequences, I am pausing momentarily between each part.

a.) At the end of the last sequence, we found ourselves in porta di ferro larga (a guard position). From here, if your opponent has their point directed at you, step to the left of them with a tramazzone (a fast, downward wheeling cut, keeping the wrists forward)
into their blade.

b.) Without pause, continue forwards with a falso impuntato (an angled thrust
around the opponents blade, placing the false (back) edge of your sword
against theirs) to the right side of your opponents face.

c.) As your opponent beats your thrust aside, step forward with your left leg, cutting a
riverso ridoppio (a diagonal cut upwards, from left to right,
with the true (front) edge) to his arms.

d.) Continue to your the right of your opponent with your right leg, cutting a mandritto (a diagonal downward cut from right to left) that continues into a tramazzone (a fast, downward wheeling cut, keeping the wrists forward) ending in porta di ferro larga (a guard position).

e.) If your opponent takes this opportunity to attack, displace it with a falso (a diagonal upward cut with the false (back) edge of your weapon), turning that into a riverso (a diagonal downward cut from left to right) as you step to the left of your
opponent with your left foot, and ending in coda lunga e distesa (a guard position).

f.) Retreat with a left step and a falso dritto (a diagonal upward cut, from right to left,
with the false (back) edge), and then with a right step and a mandritto (a diagonal
downward cut from left to right) into cinghiare porta di ferro stretta (a guard position - differing here due to backward transition into next stance).

g.) Turn from the waist, dropping your weight as you draw your left foot back to your right, and throw yourself to the left into a wide guardia di intrare.

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