Farfalle di Ferro

The Farfalle di Ferro, the Iron Butterfly, is a sword handling drill, and is composed of three parts:

Part one: mandritto fendente, a high roverso punta, and roverso fendente. Start and finish in donna destra.

Part two: roverso fendente, a high mandritto punta, and mandritto fendente. Start and finish in donna sinestra.

Part three: four sottani: mandritto sottano with the false edge (aka falso dritto), mandritto sottano with the true edge, roverso sottano with the false edge (aka falso manco), roverso sottano with the true edge.

When put together, part three is done with two passes backwards.

Music credit: "Two Swords" by _ghost Available at ccMixter.org http://ccmixter.org/files/_ghost/26146 Under CC BY license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/