DOMENICO MANCINO

When he was a boy, each of his friends had fathers who work like shepherds, sheep smugglers, etc. His mother, after another quarrel with his "castdder" friends living in the neighborhood called "castle", the most dreaded "scunts" of my country. To send it to her "past elders" pastor cousins ​​in the peripheral district of Di Canosa called "Constantinopoli." However, since my friend Michele also lived, nicknamed "macistas" because he helped his father to the tuff quarry; Therefore, he also had to find these cousins ​​of my mother, now old shepherds. They were "using an umbrella," and jokingly, telling old stories of quarrels with the stick, or with brackets, sometimes pulling out the knife, to defend themselves. They introduced him to what many years later he realized that he was a kind of real fencing with the stick, with tactics and techniques, with his own "scholarly grammar". When he realized this, a curiosity began in him, his mother's cousins, seeing his insistence, and curiosity sent him to their frantic friends. Where he met the other "depositary"; By his will I do not name "N.G.". He knew their uncles, her, and other people who taught him, the knife and twine, and fence with the "close-range" knife. With the other "custodian" they started a search and study path, where they introduced them to other characters, and other ways of shielding, especially with the knife. Their research led them to discover a lost world, to which almost no one knew it. "The reasons for such hermeticism are described in the book that master Domenico Mancino has made on this ancient and mysterious tradition." They studied the secrets, and after several years mastered the secrets. Bound for several years by a promise made to the last custodian masters. The promise was; Who did not have to speak and teach what they had learned, "no one means anyone, not even their relatives", but only after the death of their last one, after the death of the old senior custodian, they could decide what to do Of what they had learned. After a long time, after many thoughts and reflections. Domenico Mancino, decided to teach what I had, "with great patience" learned. The other depositary made another choice, and another path. Sky and Wonder There are not many photos, do you keep in mind that these people were very private, plus who could afford a camera at that time? Then what do you do with the knife in front of a goal? My masters, and their masters, did not like to show their skill in knife fencing to anyone. Their scholarly knowledge was seen more as a fact related to the need for personal defense, and not to a playful fact, more tied to their work.