Grapples Ponti

...he opened Ponti’s guard up high, quillions locked to blade, and lunged forward and braced him, their breastplates clashing, swords aloft, Tannhauser’s weight gaining the vantage and Ponti winded, his left hand grappling for the throat as Tannhauser dropped a headbutt into his nose. The tip of his dagger sought the armhole in Ponti’s cuirass, and Ponti clenched his elbow to his side and forced the dagger away and abandoned the throat grab, for Tannhauser’s neck was too thick, and he grabbed instead for his balls and Tannhauser stuck the dagger through Ponti’s hand and pricked his own thigh as Ponti jerked back. He threaded his leg between Ponti’s knees and hooked his calf and shoved from the hip and Ponti toppled backward, sword flailing—
-TR, pg. 710