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     An Italian martial art that 
    started in the city of Sicily.The sport is born from the communion of 
    father, child, brother, teacher, student that is the most sincere testimony 
    of the Italian tradition.  | 
    
     
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     The technique of 
    defense and offense with the baton handed down by father in child for by 
    oral and secret estate from some old ones that before dying they left herin 
    inheritance to their favorite. In the last centuries, they started to be 
    born the first clandestine schools and the first various methods. Among the 
    most known they were her "fiorata", her "wisecrack", her "rotated" that I 
    believe they were inspired today still to the show of the pupis alive in 
    Sicily. The old teachers decided to teach, only and exclusively to her own 
    students, some of such techniques, the famous secret hit always reserving 
    himself/herself/itself that you/they would eventually have been able to also 
    use against the students. All these techniques him lawns - they extract with 
    a knotty baton, select among various wild plants: bitter orange tree, olive 
    tree, sorb tree, gnawed her/it, etc. Says baton it was long four palms and a 
    half.  
     
    In this to evolve some art of the baton, in Sicily, it was verified really 
    an approach between the aristocratic class and that worker; the humble 
    shepherd, the farmer or the laborer it taught the techniques to the baron or 
    to the rider of the epoch, that served against the numerous knives that then 
    often in the aggressions you/they were used in Sicily; this way the baron 
    with the classical cane from I walk, then of fashion, it was always able to 
    defend from the attacks of the malandrinis.  |