Capoferro: Plate 17
Capoferro: Plate 17
Summary
This is one of the key avoidance plays, in which you step offline to your outside, with your front foot, as the opponent attacks. You can find this in The Duellist's Companion, pp 148 to 149, and the counter is on pp 166-167. Note that the last section is almost word for word the instructions given on Plate 13 for the Scannatura.
Source Text and Drawing
Figure that strikes with the avoidance of the right foot close to the ear.
The figure marked C having constrained to the outside the figure marked B, and that figure disengaging to strike in quarta the figure marked C, the same figure marked C will strike him with the avoidance of the right foot, traversing to the outside of his sword in the face close to the ear. It goes without saying that if B had been a practiced person, he would have disengaged the sword to feint with the waist retained somewhat back, and C coming securely to strike with the avoidance of the right foot traversing to figure B, B confronting the enemy's sword to the outside dropping the point in seconda, and passing with the left leg in one and the same motion would strike in the flank, giving a grip to the hand of the sword.
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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
