SECOND LESSON
GOLPES DE FRENTE
Let us now go to explain the puñaladas that have a place in the various suertes that are executed in the mingling of the terrenos. It likely appears strange to many of our students that we haven't spoken of these, at the time we treated on the diverse types of golpes that we have explained in the first part of this Instruction; but to them we will say, that we prefer to explain in this second part the golpes de frente and costado seperately from all the rest, because after having spoke in the previous lesson on the guardias, we believe we should do it in this and the following lessons, of the golpes that you strike with the movements that you already know.
By golpes de frente we mean those that the combatants strike face to face and without looking for the sides or using the tretas. The diestro placed in guardia, he approaches his adversary until their terrenos overlap, and then quickly raising the weapon arm he strikes a plumada which wounds his adversary if he doesn't huye or quite; doing this by reaching out at the same time as the weapon arm and giving a floretazo.