Pigliare la Spada

Fiore figures crossed at mid-sword. — Fiore dei Liberi, Fior di Battaglia, c. 1410 — Getty MS Ludwig XV 13, fol. 25v (2nd Master of the Wide Play). Wikimedia Commons ↗

Folio 1rItalian (Fiore)

— seizing the sword

Fiore's Third Wide Play. From the mid-crossing, advance, take their blade with the lead hand, and strike with your own.

The play turns a bind into a hostage exchange. Once the Master has the opponent's blade, the opponent has no sword and the Master has two — one in each hand. The strike that follows is uncontested.

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Incrosada a meza spada

— crossing at mid-sword

The bind has formed at the middle of the blades.

Next → Advance into close range · step 2: Acresser in denanci

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