Karavansara

East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai

Last day

31 August 2017 by Davide Mana 4 Comments

… and I’ve just crawled past 13.000.
This is going to be a loooong day.

And right now I need train timetables from Paris to Geneva and some simple, practical self-defense moves.

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Author: Davide Mana

Paleontologist. By day, researcher, teacher and ecological statistics guru. By night, pulp fantasy author-publisher, translator and blogger. In the spare time, Orientalist Anonymous, guerilla cook.

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Joe Blackthorn
31 August 2017 at 15:50

Davide,

Well I can’t help you write anything, but for simple, straight-forward hand to hand combat moves , go to

Click to access tough.pdf

WW2 techniques taught to the British Commandos and the OSS (forerunner of the CIA). Smple and easy to describe as well as actually effective. Hope it helps.

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- Davide Mana
  31 August 2017 at 16:21
  
  Wonderful!
  Thanks a lot!
  
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Joe Blackthorn
31 August 2017 at 15:52

Almost forgot, go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Fairbairn for a bio of the guy who invented the system,

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- Davide Mana
  31 August 2017 at 16:22
  
  Thanks – will come in handy for both the story and a future post.
  
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