PerSev ("High Art")?

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Armando Basulto

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This may seem a little off-topic:

THere is a knife system discussed in the book HIGH ART, by Rubem Fonseco (that was loosely adapted to the screen in the movie EXPOSURE) called PerSev (Perforate and Sever).

The book is a work of fiction, but the knife-fighting is presented in a very realistic fashion. It is mentioned in the same breath as Biddle's hand-to-hand and other, even earlier systems. According to the story, it was a system used by Brazilian Military and codified from various Western/Eastern Sources by someone named Araujo.

Does anyone know anything about this knife-fighting system? Of course, it may be a complete fictional fabrication, but I'm intrigued. I've been doing research on this but have found nothing

Thanks!
Armando
 
I believe it was fictional and was made up just for the book.

-Travis
 
As far as I can tell from what I remember of the movie, "Hermes" sorta "JKD-Concepted" or condensed what was useful of the slash and thrust method of knife fighting. The book on the other hand seemed to rely more on what the author had researched for the sake of the story; there was a lot of name dropping only, and no real meat when it came to the training sequences.

It was wierd too how the overall differences panned out; attorney and photographer? Hermes getting killed? Balls!

Professor.
 
The film of course used FMA (Chris Kent did the choreography?)
The drills Peter Coyote and Hermes did appear Sumbrada based, but I wasn't able to catch what they were actually doing...did you?

However, there is most definitely a system taught to Brazilian Military that the author referred to in the book. I've been communicating with someone who knows of the system and I find it very interesting....(it is, like other miliary H2H systems, a composite of different sources).

THe book, by the way, is very good and much better than the film if anyone is interested.


Armando
 
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