Back guard/stance

Back guard/stance
with the weapon held pointing down and diagonally backward (sometimes even called Mittelhut) by Medieval German masters, and a Tail guard by the Italians (or even Serpentino or Leopardo in armored fighting, spada in arme', for which many techniques of swordplay are different)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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