Italian Sword & Buckler Mini-Tutorial - The Blossom This pattern shows up throughout traditional Italian forms (assaults). Starting with a parry of a blow to the head (guardia di testa) followed by a horizontal cut (tondo), a back hand cut (roverso), and a rising cut. It is a surprisingly robust sequence of blows that tends to find the next revealed target as an opponent counters each action. Here I show it as a feint to the head (by how I lift my sword) that instead drops to the leg. Then if th

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