Italian Knife Fighting Workshop

Some impressions of the Italian Knife Fighting Workshop with Lupo Mark De Fazio. Basics and advanced techniques of the south italian schools of Apulia. With rope, belt and Jacket as offhand weapons.

[@kirkcavenaugh758]

Cool

[@razorslice99]

Beautiful and graceful knife work . Great video and I like that you included another Western style of blade work and went outside the Scottish base.

[@tuerkefechi]

We mainly train scottish weapons, but we always use the chance to have a look "outside the box" to understand the various principles of swordsmanship and martial arts in general. So we invite instructors of other disciplines regulary, exchange with other styles and take part in various seminars. It is important to keep an open mind. And the Italian Knife Fighting is really something fencers using Broadsword, Sabre, Smallsword and the like can learn a lot from.

[@johnmesias150]

Knife Italian style, set with the Spanish "Holy Week" music (Semana Santa). This is not what I expected.

[@tuerkefechi]

The track is from the Alatriste Soundtrack and was nice to use. Unfortunately I do not have traditional italian music with Tambourin ready, which was the soundtrack we had for the seminar itself. But nevertheless, many aspects of spanish influence came into some of the italian traditional knife schools, so it works ;-)

[@johncruikshank8090]

Was this the knife fighting training used by the arditi during WW1

[@tuerkefechi]

I am not sure how much influence traditional styles had on the arditi. Might be to some degree. As far as I know, they however used material from old medieval and renaissance dagger sources.

[@jimothycurrie.5285]

question is that logo with the Two Knives crossing eachother do they represents the Saltire of Scotland?

[@gladius2489]

Where can I acquire a traditional Italian fighting knife to train with?

[@tuerkefechi]

The Aluminium Arsenal also makes custom training knives in Italian Style. Traditionally the Fusto, a simple short stick was also used. Check out the channel of Roberto Laura (Traditional Italian Knife Fighting) for more informations.

[@ishtarfolmagi3829]

does this actually work in real life? they're moving as if their knife is 2ft longer than it really is

[@tuerkefechi]

The workshop was to show different Italian styles and give the participants an overview. All sorts of knifes were welcome, longer and shorter ones. Though I know many Italian dueling knifes are of course pretty long

[@ishtarfolmagi3829]

@@tuerkefechi haha i dont really know much about any kind of knife fighting, but i thought even during the medieval/renaissance period any such kind of engagement would quickly reduce to trying to grab or block the opponents armed hand and getting in as many stabs as you could, especially for the double edged daggers. If so would training methods have reflected that? The wide sweeps and side steps look more practical for longer swords or batons.

[@ishtarfolmagi3829]

KZbin sent me to this video with its random algorithms 😅

[@tuerkefechi]

@@ishtarfolmagi3829 There are some videos by Roberto Laura on Italian Knife fighting, which explains it better then I could with words hahaha But generally speaking, it is mostly dueling styles, so it is more like fencing with (very long) knifes. But there are some styles which are intended for selfdefense, which work more in close quarters.

[@ishtarfolmagi3829]

@@tuerkefechi so this isnt so much self defense as dueling by gentlemen rules, even for knife fighting, which i assume also happened historically? wow :O