Second against Third using chiamata and the left hand

Here follows a wound in Second against Third, arising because, with both in Third on the outside, the striker makes an invitation (chiamata) by turning the sword from Third into a traversed Second to the inside, with the point out of presence, and by turning the left flank so far forward that he uncovers the whole chest to the enemy, though the sword is held so low that the enemy can only wound above it; at the same time he keeps the left hand above the forehead. While the enemy comes to wound that opening in the time of the invitation, the striker with that left hand pushes the enemy sword outward by the left flank and, in the same time, passes with the left foot, keeping the body low and disengaging in that same Second. Thus he wounds the enemy in the chest, extending the right arm as much as possible and accompanying it with the right side brought forward, while the toes of the left foot are turned outward so as to carry the body farther away from the enemy sword.

This is the clearest formal chiamata in the sequence. Its point is not merely to show a provocation, but to show the conditions of a proper invitation: the opening must be such that the enemy can only answer in a determinate way, while the striker has already prepared the body, hand, and line by which the answer is to be defeated.