Stance Description
The stance ended up as a very profiled stance. The hilt went slightly to the left of my body, and the forte crossed over the rest of my body, frequently ending up with my tip pointing quite a bit off-line. This was because I needed to use my forte to defend myself against their debole, and the way most people fight on the inside line involves putting your sword very far over theirs on the inside line.
My hand ended up naturally rising when entering this guard, but I think that's because I was profiling my body. I could not find a comfortable place for my dagger, so it ended up drifting to various places. My hand ended up changing between being in seconda and in terza, which is about as expected.
None of the single-tempo actions I expected to work were the ones which ended up working. I had expected to be able to get a single-tempo on-line thrust to work well. This almost never worked, because my opponents never felt comfortable having me on their inside line. Usually this resulted in my opponent pushing me even deeper toward the inside line.
Successful Actions
The most successful actions ended up being two-tempo actions. One example was a two-tempo false-edge push upwards into a single-tempo thrust, from my sword being in seconda-terza below theirs. This ended up being a relatively safe action because of how this stance covers itself, and because of how far offline my opponent's blade had to go in order to push me offline. Also, the fact that my tip tended to be lower than my opponent's tip, despite my hilt being above their hilt. A less steep angle seems to be a thing with this stance.
Another successful action ended up being a straight-in thrust, leading to a passing step with a dagger-cover, void, and yield around. I would try to thrust straight-in, which forced my opponent to parry hard to the inside. This meant I knew where my opponent's sword would be, so I could take a passing step, covering with my dagger. If my opponent parried particularly high, then the dagger was not necessary, the body void being sufficient to protect me.
The last successful action was a response to my opponent pushing hard inside and downwards, with their tip lower than their hilt. It was a simple disengage to the left around their hilt. This is extremely fast, because the action initiates in the direction of my true edge. It ends up touching in my opponent's flank, past that beautiful and hard-to-parry part of the crook of the arm.
Less Successful Actions
When my opponent didn't give me blade engagement, I felt like I could not do very much. In theory I should have been able to strike in the tempo of their disengage, but in practice my sword ran into their dagger most of the time when this happened.
Additionally, if this stance really is what Giganti wanted, it should have been easy to strike through a disengage-thrust. This was decidedly not the case. I would usually catch the parry, but then my tip would go wide. I think that is a problem of execution on my part though, not a problem with the geometry itself. I shall need to think on this.
Going Forward
For the future, I need to work on my single-intent actions from this new inside guard. My intuition says that as my two-tempo actions improve, this will open up options for single-tempo actions. The two-tempo actions listed above all take advantage of my opponent's guard being very "big" - as in, "oh, you're on the inside line, I am going to very firmly cover your blade". I think that if I fight someone using a "smaller" guard, I will have more success with single-tempo actions.
Additionally, it's interesting to note how many of my go-to actions on the outside line are two-tempo. The most successful ones are still the single-tempo actions, but the two-tempo actions are very necessary to make opportunities for the single-tempo actions.
This stance is still not ready for tournament primetime, but it's well on its way to being useful.
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