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Mandritto
?Ridoppio
?Rovescio
Roverso
Falso manco
Roverso ascendente
Fendente
Montante – false edge ascending straight up the middle
Imbroccata
Stoccata
Punta Riversa
Punta ___ – drilled thrust
[hemaa forums/ steven reich]
Mandritto – A Cut starting from your right and moving towards your left, usually diagonal.
Roverso – A Cut starting from your left and moving towards your right, usually diagonal.
Fendente – A Vertical (descending) cut (not that despite the ‘dente’ in the name, it has nothing to do with ‘teeth’).
Mezzo Mandritto (note ‘o’ on the end of Mandritto): A half-cut, usually this means that the cut stops with the blade in presence. Sometimes it is used for a specific type of cut where you make a mandritto from a Mezza Volta di Mano (half-turn of the hand). For example, if you were in Coda Lunga Stretta, you could (without any preparation) make a Mezzo Mandritto to the opponent’s sword-hand.
Roverso Traversato – It is a little hard to tell without a specific example. Sometimes Traversato seems to imply a path (shallow diagonal to horizontal), other times it seems to imply a cut ‘across’ a target.
Mandritto Tondo – A Mandritto with a horizontal path. Note that Mandritto Tondo can be delivered to the opponent’s head, leg, or anywhere in between. That is, the name specifies a path but not the target (although the text usually gives you the target).
A Few More…
Tramazzone – A cut made with a circular preparation (i.e. like a modern sabre ‘Molinello’). Note that this is mostly to the inside (so that your sword rotates around your left side), but not always. Note that by definition, a Tramazzone is made with the wrist. Note Tramazzone and Stramazzone mean exactly the same thing. Also, neither of them is specifically referring to a “tip cut”.
Falso Manco – An ascending false-edge cut starting from your left (thus, a sort of False-edge ascending Riverso).
Falso Dritto – An ascending false-edge cut starting from your right (thus, a sort of False-edge ascending Mandritto).
Mandritto Sgualembrato – A diagonal Mandritto.
Riverso Ridoppio – A diagonally ascending Riverso cut delivered with the true edge.
Mandritto Ridoppio – A diagonally ascending Mandritto cut delivered with the true edge (in Marozzo, mostly confined to the Spada da due mani).
Stoccata – Either a general thrust, or an ascending thrust, often on the inside.
Punta Sottomano – An ascending thrust (literally, ‘underhand thrust’), i.e. a Stoccata.
Imbroccata – A descending thrust.
Punta Sopramano – A descending thrust (literally, ‘overhand thrust’), i.e. an Imbroccata.
Punta Riversa – A thrust made with your palm up and your hand turned to your inside (over even beyond). This thrust can be delivered on the inside or the outside of the opponent’s sword. It is very often delivered on the outside (to draw a much wider parry), when the sword is used with a companion weapon, such as a buckler. Note that Marozzo doesn’t use this term very often.
Montante – A Vertically ascending false-edge cut.
Note that these are reasonably consistent within the Bolognese tradition, but are not necessarily consistent with works outside of the Bolognese tradition (e.g. Altoni, who uses ‘Fendente Montante’ to describe a vertically ascending true-edge (IIRC) cut).
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A note on Man-dritto vs. Man-dritta. The reason why I was specific about this is that there are two meanings distinguished merely by the vowel at the end. In the first case, although the original meaning was ‘right hand’ it means the cut (ending in the ‘o’). In the second (ending in the ‘a’), it is the word for hand (‘mano’) followed by the properly declined [archaic] adjective for right (‘dritta’). Despite ‘mano’ ending in ‘o’, which usually signifies a masculine noun, it is one of the special cases where a noun ending in ‘o’ is feminine. The reason why I mention this is because in some sources, you might see ‘Man dritto’ or ‘Man dritta’ and only the context and the vowel distinguish whether the author is talking about the cut or the right hand.
Hope this helps. If you have any more general questions on terminology or specific questions on various actions, I’m pretty familiar with Marozzo and would be happy to help.
Turning Bolognese.. 