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Cacoy Hernandez

Author of Balisong: Iron Butterfly

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Balisong: Iron Butterfly (1985) 7 copies

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Rarely is a book wirtten by an author whose very existence is a tribute to his expertise. This is just such a book. Cacoy Hernandez has fought and lived to tell the tale, his style may shock you, but everyone from would-be street fighter to research sociologist, cannot fail to be gripped by this guide to the balisong kinfe so splendidly intertwined with the author's autobiography A devastating book that breaks new ground. Read it once and it may affect your life, read it twice and it may save it!

Contents

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Introduction by the Author
Chapter One Balisong's history
Chapter Two Catches and retrieves
Chapter Three The fighting grip
Chapter Four Cut, slash, stab
Chapter Five Moving to attack
Chapter Six Advanced catches and retrieves
Chapter Seven The knife master of Hawaii
Chapter Eight The blood boat of Liverpool
Chapter Nine The drunken kung-fu master
Chapter Ten The king of African knife
Chapter Eleven Fighting tacts
Editor's note
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AikiBib | 1 other review | May 29, 2022 |
A collection of implausible vignettes, interspersed with hokey philosophy and knife-fighting tips so vague as to be useless, all framed as the author's transcript of an oral "memoir" of a globe-trotting Filipino dock worker slash (heh) fighting expert. If Carlos CastaƱeda was into butterfly knives instead of psychedelic mushrooms, this is the book he would have written.
 
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benjamin.duffy | 1 other review | Jul 28, 2013 |

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