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# Manual of the Baratero: The Art of Handling the Navaja, the Knife, and the Scissors of the Gypsies Paperback – January 1, 2005

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- **What is this?** Manual of the Baratero: The Art of Handling the Navaja, the Knife, and the Scissors of the Gypsies Paperback – January 1, 2005 by james loriega
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## Customer Reviews

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    An exotic, priviously unreachable art..
  

*by I***Y on Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2011*

Not being immersed in a Gypsy community, it is hard for anyone to judge what it is like for a male representetive of this colorful ethnicity to work the knife, the whip, to sing and dance to a guitar, to love and to hate. However, until the age of about 14 i lived in Moldavia, a region known for its Gypsy population and for its influence on the local culture. People have often held a certain fascination with the personal steel there, and i wasn't an exception. Unconsciously (for the most part) i carried an ice pick from my father's taylor shop around the age of 13-14, having no notion of what it's like to put that thing into anyone's body...The book "Manual of the Baratero" is a one of a kind piece of literature, describing a way of life of the low ones, and their knife wielding style of fighting. In truth, its more about quick punishment than about fighting, although it looks like tet-a-tet encounters weren't uncommon.As much as it is strange to have a "Manual of how to be a Yakuza", this book is not really a "how to-" manual, but rather (as the translator sharply points out) a sort of written vengeance on the upper crust of society - too proud and too busy to note that dark impeccability of the representetive of the "hood". I have to assume they did eventually, as flamenco is widely excepted for its beauty complexity and harmony and is one of the more well-known symbols of Spain. In any case, this book is a valuable source document, and it comes both in English and in Spanish.

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    Several Opinions, interesting form
  

*by H***T on Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2011*

I own two copies-one hardcover, one on kindle. We chose to run through this book at a Monday study group and ended up using less than a third of the material. First, the actual reference material is *very* short and is not written by a practitioner but by a an observer so some of the navaja techniques are described but not as detailed as we'd have liked.Pros: Nice to have a translation and some opinion from Maestro Martinez and James Loriega and am grateful we have the material. The book has an actual foot placement chart for the "hero" and "counter hero" positions which is something one rarely sees. It was nice to see something other than the usual German or Italian for western martial arts. Cons: There isn't a lot of overall material and quite a bit is interpretation, not translation or original material. I think it depends on what you hope to find.Overall, I enjoyed it-especially some of the colorful descriptions of the Baratero and the references in the contemporary literature of its time. Some of the 'tricks' and unusual blades are great to read about and if you are a stage performer this can offer some fun items for shows.If you don't mind reading ready-made interpretation and opinion, then this book is for you. Your mileage may vary.

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    Entertaining, mostly for historical interest
  

*by H***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2017*

It's interesting, but more from a historical perspective than a tactical one. The instructions are sometimes in need of a martial artist translation, and at other times are just interesting commentary or explanations why such & such will not be explained. Other books are better about justifying why a move should be done a certain way, but for how old it is, it's probably more efficient at explaining tactics than other documents of that era. The translator has inserted some commentary and attempted to supplement the images.

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