His work was continued by his followers pupil Luis Pacheco de Narváez, and Dutch master of fencing Gérard Thibault d'Anvers.

Together with the duke, he participated in the invasion of the Algarve, part of the military campaign that eventually led Philip II of Spain to the Portuguese throne.

In Honduras, he faced the treasurer Gregorio Santiago and Gaspar de Andrada, the bishop of Comayagua, who later was accused of corruption.

In his treatise Carranza also touches on medicine, mathematics, geometry, ethics, and created the concept of philosophical fencing esgrima filosófica, or combat philosophy, unique in European martial arts history.

To my great regret, the knights, whose main distinction should be a mighty spirit, now more and more resemble women or, better said, dressed up in substances that are neither suitable for peacetime support nor for defense in times of war; and it even seems that some of them were born only to represent in comedy dressed up silent figures ...[5]Sánchez de Carranza puts a certain medieval meaning into the formation of the ideal of the warrior, the master.

This is undoubtedly consistent not only with the humanistic goals of the era, but with all the desire of Carranza and his readers to build the philosophy and science of the new system of fencing.