Modern forensic science has finally solved that old conundrum, who would win in a fight Sun Tzu, some ancient Chinese sales and marketing guru, and Vlad the Impaler?
Dracula would kick Sun Tzu’s arse, then he would butt-rape him to death with a large wooden stake. Can’t argue with science
I'm a petite 21 year old Sicilian-Irish girl born in Cork, who is very happily married to the sexiest guy in the world.
When I'm not making love to my husband, I love wrestling, Sicilian knife and stick fighting, tactical shooting, hunting, Coursing, dog fighting, dog racing, dancing, driving my Alfa Romeo Giulietta, scuba diving, parachuting, skiing, playing on X Box, watching boxing and Rugby: I support Munster Rugby, Amatori Catania Rugby and the Azzurri.
I've competed internationally in S'Istrumpa, beach wrestling, freestyle wrestling, grappling and Judo, and I'm doing a Masters in Strength and Conditioning. I collect guns and knives but I'm a good Catholic girl and go to Mass most days.
Stefi, I just stumble onto your blog a couple of days ago. I enjoy reading what you write. I laugh almost every time I read a blog. Thanks. But I do not remember Dracula butt raping Sun Tzu. I must have changed the channel before that part.
Ave? Tu pensi che io sono Maria Immacolata?
Io penso che c’erano 1500 anni tra loro ed arma ed armatura migliorarono. Sun Tzu’s avrebbe un culo dolente
I only saw what’s in this video. I watched some before. I think the weapons stuff is kinda cool but the fights scenes are so freaking funny. It got crappy for a while, the Taliban vs the ‘RA and Green Berets (who?) against Spetnaz.
Yeah, but who are they. I heard of Delta and SEALS but I heard about Green berets. Why did the American army bother with Delta if they already had SF, did they go “oh crap forgot about them”.
Amica … I think you gotta’ quit playing horror fantasy games on your computer before you go to bed. What are your boyfriends going to say? It’s just not casual conversation. Ha! Ha!!
rob
19 August, 2010 at 1:35 am
@ P
“Boyfriends”? she’s married to me.
P from America
20 August, 2010 at 6:53 am
Rob … OK that clarifies things a bit.
I’m assuming then that this subject qualifies as “pillow talk” in your house?!!
By the way … a lot of your newer readers don’t quite understand the relationship between the 3 of you. And it’s also not clear where you all live.
Rob is my brother. We all live together in Sicily. We have businesses, property and family in Rome and London, so we travel to both a lot. Where are you from P?
P from USA
20 August, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Stefi
Nice to hear from you!
I’m out in Los Angeles, California.
My training in bladework comes from the martial arts of the Philippines.
I train actively in that style.
Recently I started investigating other styles of knife defense … especially those from Europe. Mostly, I was just curious to see how other practitioners saw their own arts. That’s how I discovered your Web page. I was interested to find out that several styles of knife defense are still active in Europe – especially those from Siciliy and the province of Andalusia in Spain. Rob’s comments on this blog also opened up a new world … because I had no idea that the Italian military had preserved an emphasis on knife skills.
From your brief comments, it appears that your own Sicilian style places a lot of emphasis on thrusting techniques with the knife. I would be interested to hear why you think this is true – or if it’s not entirely true then what other patterns are also used. I don’t yet have an idea of how the Spanish schools are teaching their bladework techniques.
The Baratero style isn’t active in Andalusia any more but it’s very similar to the Pugliese gypsy style still practised in Brindisi. Sicilian knife fighting favours the point over the blade with a Liccasapuni, Cuteddu ammanicatu or Salitano, which all have long thin blades. But uses the edge of the blade when using rasolino, roncola siciliana or birittedda, because they don’t have a point.
P from USA
21 August, 2010 at 12:36 am
Stefi
We’ve given some thought as to why your Sicilian style favors the point of the blade, and why it prefers long thin blades. One possible explanation comes from the Medieval times in Europe, when warriors wore strong metal armor. To defeat an opponent with a knife, slashing techniques would not work against metal armor pllates and chain mail protection (at the sleeves and neck). Therefore, the best way of killing an enemy would be very precise thrusts aimed at the weak points in the system of armor – the joints and openings between the metal pieces. It is possible that your system has been built upon these roots. Just something to think about.
rob
21 August, 2010 at 8:00 am
P –
Sicilian knife fighting of the late C19th and early C20th had nothing to do with mediaeval combat. Sicilian peasants and bandits were’t wearing Milanese plate or zacco (mail shirts) in this epoch, if they wore armour at all, it was the leather or splinted corazza, but that was rare. The Liccasapuni, the traditional Sicilian soap knife was the favoured knife of the bandit. The style is based on the knife. You’re not going to be stabbing with a razor but the preference for the thrust over the slash was established in Italian fencing with the Spada da Lato a Striscia. The cut is inferior to the thrust because the cut is double action and the thrust is a single action — in other words a thrust is quicker — and with a knife slashing inflicts less injury than stabbing.
P from America
23 August, 2010 at 6:13 am
Hey Amica …
you are the strength training expert here.
Give me some exercises and sets of reps that I can do – so I can seriously reduce my waistline. I’ve been doing various forms of situps lately, but all they seem to do is to thicken up my stomach muscles. They do help – but it’s not really slimming my belly. Got any good ideas??
@ P
You’re not going to reduce your waistline doing sit-ups. You need to burn fat, the best way to do that is a total body strength workout. This post might help Cleaning, shouldering or throwing a sandbag, tire or keg will help reduce your waistline a lot faster than an ab workout. But if you want to develop a strong core, medicine ball exercises like Turkish get ups and sit up stand up (boxers exercise) are good, and so is passing a kettle bell between your legs in a figure eight. Lifting and throwing a sandbag behind you is good too. And watch you eat. For cardio have lots of sex.
“I’m assuming then that this subject qualifies as “pillow talk” in your house?!!”
Nah but I get impaled
P from America
28 August, 2010 at 5:26 am
Amica
Thanks … I’ll get onto it immediately.
If I understand the “Amica Gut Reduction System” correctly … you are telling me to throw a lot of sandbags out my bedroom window and then spend the rest of the day in wild sexual antics.
I’m sure I should be able to fit this into my schedule.
Assuming that my neighbors don’t report anything to the police, that is
@ P
An hour of sex will burn more fat and give you a better cardio workout than an hour running, and resistance training with sandbags, tires or kegs will increase muscle mass, strengthen your core (depending on the exercises that you do) and burn fat… and eat healthy. Checkout the link I gave you.
stefi
amica
rob
pietro amico
Thedragonsedge
15 August, 2010 at 6:55 pm
Stefi, I just stumble onto your blog a couple of days ago. I enjoy reading what you write. I laugh almost every time I read a blog. Thanks. But I do not remember Dracula butt raping Sun Tzu. I must have changed the channel before that part.
DoppioSoldo
15 August, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Con la scienza non si discute! Ma mi chiedo: come sarebbe andata se Sun Tsu avesse avuto più di 2 miseri dardi caricati nel Chu-Ko-Nu?
Ave!
heather
15 August, 2010 at 9:48 pm
LMBO
That program is like a 6th graders science report. That stick up the butt… eewh!
heather
15 August, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Dragon’s edge…
I think Amica posted this.
Ian Davies
15 August, 2010 at 9:51 pm
“Sun Tzu, some ancient Chinese sales and marketing guru,” LOL he was a general.
Jenny
15 August, 2010 at 10:10 pm
@ Ian. She’s being ironic you bozo.
Jenny
15 August, 2010 at 10:16 pm
@ Heather. “That stick up the butt… eewh!”
Vlad the impaler is a guy with issues, I bet he had a tiny little dick.
amica
16 August, 2010 at 3:12 am
@ Jen
Yeah, I kinda thought that too.
amica
16 August, 2010 at 3:13 am
@ Jen
Yeah I was. It ain’t my must see TV.
amica
16 August, 2010 at 3:16 am
@ Ian
I know. But he got owned by Dracula.
amica
16 August, 2010 at 4:02 am
@ Doppio
Ave? Tu pensi che io sono Maria Immacolata?
Io penso che c’erano 1500 anni tra loro ed arma ed armatura migliorarono. Sun Tzu’s avrebbe un culo dolente
ciao
amica
16 August, 2010 at 4:08 am
@ Thedragonsedge
I only saw what’s in this video. I watched some before. I think the weapons stuff is kinda cool but the fights scenes are so freaking funny. It got crappy for a while, the Taliban vs the ‘RA and Green Berets (who?) against Spetnaz.
amica
16 August, 2010 at 4:11 am
@ heather
Hey soz, missed your comment. Yeah I know, Dracula was one sick homo.
rob
16 August, 2010 at 5:07 am
Typical pikey, he’d rape anything. What a wrong ‘un.
Thedragonsedge
16 August, 2010 at 2:37 pm
@amica
Green Berets is the special forces of the United State Army.
Sergery
17 August, 2010 at 7:51 am
Delusional movie. It seems that the authors beat a computer game or RPG.
amica
17 August, 2010 at 4:05 pm
@ segery
I know. Funny though
amica
17 August, 2010 at 4:17 pm
@ Thedragonsedge
Yeah, but who are they. I heard of Delta and SEALS but I heard about Green berets. Why did the American army bother with Delta if they already had SF, did they go “oh crap forgot about them”.
amica
17 August, 2010 at 4:19 pm
@ Rob
Vlad was a gypo?
P from USA
18 August, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Amica … I think you gotta’ quit playing horror fantasy games on your computer before you go to bed. What are your boyfriends going to say? It’s just not casual conversation. Ha! Ha!!
rob
19 August, 2010 at 1:35 am
@ P
“Boyfriends”? she’s married to me.
P from America
20 August, 2010 at 6:53 am
Rob … OK that clarifies things a bit.
I’m assuming then that this subject qualifies as “pillow talk” in your house?!!
By the way … a lot of your newer readers don’t quite understand the relationship between the 3 of you. And it’s also not clear where you all live.
cheers,
P
stefi
20 August, 2010 at 3:44 pm
@ P
Rob is my brother. We all live together in Sicily. We have businesses, property and family in Rome and London, so we travel to both a lot. Where are you from P?
P from USA
20 August, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Stefi
Nice to hear from you!
I’m out in Los Angeles, California.
My training in bladework comes from the martial arts of the Philippines.
I train actively in that style.
Recently I started investigating other styles of knife defense … especially those from Europe. Mostly, I was just curious to see how other practitioners saw their own arts. That’s how I discovered your Web page. I was interested to find out that several styles of knife defense are still active in Europe – especially those from Siciliy and the province of Andalusia in Spain. Rob’s comments on this blog also opened up a new world … because I had no idea that the Italian military had preserved an emphasis on knife skills.
From your brief comments, it appears that your own Sicilian style places a lot of emphasis on thrusting techniques with the knife. I would be interested to hear why you think this is true – or if it’s not entirely true then what other patterns are also used. I don’t yet have an idea of how the Spanish schools are teaching their bladework techniques.
cheers,
P
stefi
20 August, 2010 at 10:47 pm
@ P
The Baratero style isn’t active in Andalusia any more but it’s very similar to the Pugliese gypsy style still practised in Brindisi. Sicilian knife fighting favours the point over the blade with a Liccasapuni, Cuteddu ammanicatu or Salitano, which all have long thin blades. But uses the edge of the blade when using rasolino, roncola siciliana or birittedda, because they don’t have a point.
P from USA
21 August, 2010 at 12:36 am
Stefi
We’ve given some thought as to why your Sicilian style favors the point of the blade, and why it prefers long thin blades. One possible explanation comes from the Medieval times in Europe, when warriors wore strong metal armor. To defeat an opponent with a knife, slashing techniques would not work against metal armor pllates and chain mail protection (at the sleeves and neck). Therefore, the best way of killing an enemy would be very precise thrusts aimed at the weak points in the system of armor – the joints and openings between the metal pieces. It is possible that your system has been built upon these roots. Just something to think about.
rob
21 August, 2010 at 8:00 am
P –
Sicilian knife fighting of the late C19th and early C20th had nothing to do with mediaeval combat. Sicilian peasants and bandits were’t wearing Milanese plate or zacco (mail shirts) in this epoch, if they wore armour at all, it was the leather or splinted corazza, but that was rare. The Liccasapuni, the traditional Sicilian soap knife was the favoured knife of the bandit. The style is based on the knife. You’re not going to be stabbing with a razor but the preference for the thrust over the slash was established in Italian fencing with the Spada da Lato a Striscia. The cut is inferior to the thrust because the cut is double action and the thrust is a single action — in other words a thrust is quicker — and with a knife slashing inflicts less injury than stabbing.
P from America
23 August, 2010 at 6:13 am
Hey Amica …
you are the strength training expert here.
Give me some exercises and sets of reps that I can do – so I can seriously reduce my waistline. I’ve been doing various forms of situps lately, but all they seem to do is to thicken up my stomach muscles. They do help – but it’s not really slimming my belly. Got any good ideas??
cheers,
P
amica
24 August, 2010 at 3:43 am
@ P
You’re not going to reduce your waistline doing sit-ups. You need to burn fat, the best way to do that is a total body strength workout. This post might help Cleaning, shouldering or throwing a sandbag, tire or keg will help reduce your waistline a lot faster than an ab workout. But if you want to develop a strong core, medicine ball exercises like Turkish get ups and sit up stand up (boxers exercise) are good, and so is passing a kettle bell between your legs in a figure eight. Lifting and throwing a sandbag behind you is good too. And watch you eat. For cardio have lots of sex.
amica
24 August, 2010 at 3:48 am
@ P
Nah but I get impaled
P from America
28 August, 2010 at 5:26 am
Amica
Thanks … I’ll get onto it immediately.
If I understand the “Amica Gut Reduction System” correctly … you are telling me to throw a lot of sandbags out my bedroom window and then spend the rest of the day in wild sexual antics.
I’m sure I should be able to fit this into my schedule.
Assuming that my neighbors don’t report anything to the police, that is
cheers,
P
amica
28 August, 2010 at 9:33 am
@ P
An hour of sex will burn more fat and give you a better cardio workout than an hour running, and resistance training with sandbags, tires or kegs will increase muscle mass, strengthen your core (depending on the exercises that you do) and burn fat… and eat healthy. Checkout the link I gave you.