Capoferro: Plate 16
Capoferro: Plate 16
Summary
This plate shows the counterattack in quarta, striking to the throat or face. This is prevented by the opponent disengaging with a beat attack, rather than a simple attack by disengage. It's one of the foundational drills of our training syllabus.
Source Text and Drawing
The Present and Subsequent Figures demonstrate diverse ways of striking to the inside, always supposing a stringering on the outside and a disengaging of the point by your adversary in order to strike.
The following figures demonstrate diverse ways of striking on the inside, always presupposing on your side a stringering on the outside, and on that of your adversary, a disengage in order to strike you. D disengaging as above, C will strike him in quarta with a fixed foot, or with an increase of pace, in the throat or face. But if D had been an intelligent person, when he disengaged he would have disengaged with a beating of his enemy's sword with his edge, giving him a thrust to the face or a riverso to the arm of the figure designated as C, withdrawing into terza in ordinary pace.
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Key Resources
Books: The Duellist's Companion
Workbooks: The Complete Rapier Workbook
Online courses: The Complete Rapier Course
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Source: Gran Simulacro dell'Arte e dell'Uso della Scherma Translation: William Wilson and Jherek Swanger
