Fencing italian knifes. A real history of honor and fight secrets throught 600 years of south italian traditions, becomes now a new western martial art for self defence

SYNOPSIS:

What if a Cobra Kay story was real? An italian young boy, "Peppino", living in a south east italian little seatown of Apulia region, starts in early '70 at age of 16 an iniziatic formation throught popular and secret local knife and stick fighting. It is a real italian martial art. The boy at 18 meets a karate sensei and starts to follow oriental martial arts. He wins an european championship but he feels himself not complete fighter. So he starts to study many oriental disciplines until he returns to his first formation and decides to make it a new martial art discipline in 2011. Now "Minischerma sipontina" (short fencing known also as tactical knife combact) is recognized by KMWA, Krav Maga World Association and italian olimpic committee ASI-CONI. This is the true story of italian Grand Master Giuseppe Vuovolo from Manfredonia.

Here a Master Vuovolo bio en english

Here the book (english version coming soon on summer 2022)