The strike that immediately follows a first strike, delivered before the opponent can recover.
The Nuremberg Hausbuch pairs the with the Nachschlag: having struck first, you strike again at once, so that the opponent is kept busy defending and never gets to act. In practice this is the second cut thrown without pause after the first is displaced or falls short.
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Sources and interpretation
- Nuremberg Hausbuch (MS 3227a), Wiktenauer transcription page Manuscript public domain; Wiktenauer article text CC BY-SA 4.0; translations as marked on the page The Hausbuch's discussion of Vorschlag and Nachschlag.