Description: Spain's rich history of blade-handling comes alive through photos, rare historical illustrations and colorful stories from American ninjutsu master James Loriega. In Seville, there are training halls where edged-weapons combat is still practiced as it was 300 years ago. When Loriega toured Spain several years ago he discovered such a training hall: the Sevillian School of Edged Weapons. In this book, Loriega, who holds instructor ranks in Japanese and Filipino knife-fighting disciplines, presents the secrets of the three distinct styles of Sevillian Steel, the term used to identify the weapons (particularly the classic navaja) and fighting systems that originated and evolved in Spain.

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