Italian Rapier Combat by Jared Kirby

Author:Jared Kirby [Kirby, Jared]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Military, Naval
ISBN: 9781473815582
Google: tfHNAwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2012-06-30T16:02:28+00:00

CHAPTER XII: OF STRIKING

112. Striking is the last offensive action of fencing, which is reached when I am at misura stretta. I move with the vita, the legs, and with the arm pushed forward all in one tempo to be better able to strike the adversary. This is done from pie fermo, or with the increasing of the passo, according to the size of the misura stretta and according to which is more comfortable for me to take more of the one or the other misura, because if by my lateness or by the fury of the adversary the first misura is dispersed, I am able to serve myself by the second, striking from pie fermo. In this case, it does not occur that the passo hastens more than with solely bending the right knee. It is not necessary for me to seek a closer misura, where one has to increase the passo.

113. Striking is done in three methods because I can strike my adversary while: I firm myself and he is moving to seek the misura or to strike me, or while he firms himself and I move to seek the misura, or because both of us move to seek the misura and to strike. This is the only difference, that when he moves to strike me, I strike him from pie fermo, because when he moves to this said effect it is hardly possible to take the correct misura to strike him with the increasing of the passo. Therefore, it is necessary that I hold to the misura more closely and when he moves to seek the misura, strike him with the increasing of the passo.

114. In consideration of the parts of the body with respect to the sword striking either from the inside or from the outside: from the inside in quarta and from the outside in seconda, high or low according to the uncovered parts of the adversary’s body when he will give me the misura, with respect to the point of my sword.

115. While I strike, I necessarily parry together with it, in such a way that I strike in a straight line and with the body in its due disposition, because when I strike in this manner at tempo and at misura, the adversary will never strike me. Neither by point nor by cut, because the forte of my sword travels in a direct line and comes to cover all of my body.

116. The cut is of little value because I cannot strike by cut in the said distance of misura stretta. I cannot do the rotation of the arm and the sword without entirely uncovering myself and without giving the misura and tempo to the adversary to strike me. If indeed one finds any utility from the cut, nevertheless, in the same misura and in the selfsame tempo one can not demonstrate it to be better then the point.

117. But without a doubt, on horse it is better to strike by cut then

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