Iberian montante // Diogo Gomez de Figueyredo // Regra III composta

This is a first interpretation on Figueyredo regra IV composta. (Here the source and the great English translation by Eric Myers and Steve Hick ) Sorry for the bad video quality. This is a first experiment. Regra III composta is meant to drive your opponent before you. We apply it on a quite narrow space because we came to the conclusion that it only works when the enemies have little space to sneak behind the montantero, but the street is wide enough not to need the regra for narrow streets. Even if Figueyredo doesn’t ask for talhos and revezes orizontal, we find them more suited to collect enemies and to control the area, while more diagonal cuts leave openings to enemies’ thrusts. Another consideration is about the left and right space: the blows performed by the montantero aren’t the same on both sides, so tactics requires to set your position on the street in a way that gives you space to collect on the right while keeping the others pr