CIELO E MERAVIGLIA

SCUOLA DEL COLTELLO FLESSIBILE

This website is dedicated to the preservation of a beautiful peasant tradition with knife and stick from Canosa , Apulia "cielo e meraviglia system". This system covers all distances and tactics , it is NOT a dueling school , it does not follow any rules , the purpose is the real encounter without regulations. Probably it is the only italian knife fighting tradition left containing a full close range curriculum. It is said to have about over 200 years of age.

For many years and generations, "Cielo e Meraviglia", knife fighting school of the Apulian Ofantina valley has been preserved in great secrecy. Only a selected number of people could access the secrets of this knife school of our tradition. Puglia has a rich and varied development of several schools of knife or stick fighting styles rather than a forging art of these weapons.