Longsword Guards - Posta di Donna Sinestra 

"Posta are concepts not drawings" Fede you just broke my little calligrapher's brain 🤣

Left Woman's Post? These historical names bring up interesting etymological questions.

Interesting and userfull as usual. Thank you very much for this serie of video about postas.

Keep up the amazing work, brother!

Welldone very good job ! And now let’s trying your advices and lessons !! Thank you

Thanks for the videos! Its extremely useful for new perspectives and it gives ideas for new drills.

Great video! I always liked it for entering into stretto and I don't think the translations I use sum up why it works so well as the way you put it.

Thanks! Something to try my next sparring session!

I noticed in some of your sparring videos, your Donna Sinestra seems to be quite low instead of on the shoulder like in the manuscripts, does that provide any special tactical advantage ?

@10:05 Is that "scambiare?" Google Translate tends to convert that to the English "exchange."

Cannot the word "sinestra" be translated in a different way, something like english "sinister"? Because clearly the position is not limited to left shoulder, as you say in the introduction, and as Fiore draws at the beginning. Maybe we were all misled just because the translator translated it as "on the left". That "sinestra" might not be about sides at all. (On the contrary, Posta di donna with arm above the eyes have reasons to be only on right shoulder, because on the left your eyes would be obscured by the lower hand). Also, Fiore always draws this posta with torso rotated quite far, like 90 degrees. From this position I have found it quite hard to react to opponent, because my hands and sword are just too far, and counter-cuts are too slow. Which is exact opposite of what Fiore says (posta should be great for traversing and exchanging thrusts). However I have later found that if you start your counter-cut by rotating torso, and then "drive" the generated force with hands, the cuts can be quite fast. Maybe this could be also the difference between basic Posta di donna, and Posta di donna sinestra? First one generates speed by pulling hands down and "shooting" the cut from the shoulder. The second one uses the body rotation. Both can generate speed and power by more means than just hands, which might be the reason why both are "pulsativa".

10:08 - these examples of what I'd call left zwerhewen - do you find that particular execution safe enough? I mean don't you get cut on the glove? Or on the head? Or maybe this is good enough due to height difference between you two?