Outside Fourth against angled Third

Next follows another wound in Fourth on the outside of the enemy sword, which is in an angled Third (terza angolata). It may be made in this way: both are on the inside, the one who is wounded remains in that angled Third, and the striker goes to find his blade. The wounded man wishes to disengage to the outside in Third; and in that same time the striker turns the hand into Fourth, not by extending the arm, but by carrying the hand inward and as high as the shoulder, while advancing the right foot and turning it in the air so that, when it settles on the ground, it is already turned as seen. By that action the body also turns, so that all the part that had been exposed to the enemy is lifted out of presence. Thus he forms an angle with his own sword, which enters through the angle made by the enemy blade.

In this way, the more the enemy labors to push the sword away, the greater the wound becomes. It may also happen that the wounded man goes to find the enemy blade on the outside with that angled Third, while the enemy blade is in Second; then the striker yields from Second into Fourth with a turn of the body and wounds in the same instant that the other believes he is finding the blade. The essential point is the superiority of the angle and the removal of the body from presence by the turn.