San Michele Italian Knife Fighting

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San Michele Italian Hats

Traditional Style

Here is the latest edition of our "loaded" traditional style Italian hat we use as a weapon for self-defense in San Michele. This one is designed for the winter time and as you can see it has very high-quality leather and leather lined ear flaps that fold up and down to keep you warm. The hat is constructed of top quality heavy leather with the hidden loading in leather. Price is $65 plus $6 shipping in the USA and $12 anywhere else.

Hidden Weight Hat

I want to introduce one of the self-defense tools of San Michele. I am the first to offer the authentic "loaded” traditional Italian style hat that is pronounced “goop-ah lien” in Sicilian. This is a genuine leather hat with lining and not fake leather that is really a fabric. The hat has some elastic gussets so it is one size fits all. A special leather pouch which contains a full 3 ounce saucer shaped weight is sewn into the back of the hat in the lining and you do not feel it is there when wearing it.

However should someone attack you, with one move of the hand you have a very effective means to defend yourself and possibly even use to fend off and cause an attacker to drop a knife they may be attacking you with. Once you know how to use this in San Michele it can smash bones in the hand and more. It is stylish, keeps the sun and weather off, it is hard to blow off of your head in the wind, protects against forehead cuts in a knife attack which can blind you with blood in the eyes and always there if you need it.

Another historical fact on these hats is, my teacher, Don Vito has informed me that many of the old Sicilians here, referred to these hats as a Stiletto hat. The reason is, in the front part of the peak, the hat has a large area that perfectly holds a stiletto around five inches closed which many of them used for just that.

When you grasp the front of the hat with your hand to remove it for self-defense, the inner stiletto becomes a sort of handy handle, as you can see from the shape. This helps swing the loaded hat and if needed the knife, with practice it can quickly be slung into the free hand. It was not suggested to use an auto knife unless the knife had a good safety and it worked well to keep from grasping the hat and having the blade open if the button is depressed. Perfect place to carry a spring assist or other smaller knife that is out of the way and you will hardly know is there, make sure it is legal to carry like this where you live and whatever type you place in the hat is also legal to carry.

DVD 3 covers the use of the “goop-ah-lien” in advanced fighting. These are handmade as ordered so get your order in now to get it as soon as possible.

Soldier of God, Loaded Beret

Introducing a very special item for our San Michele and Cossack Combat Whip students and buyers. This is a very important item to me as our arts are Christian based. In this day and age, as has been the case for centuries, Christians are under attack worldwide and there have always been soldiers for the people who are also soldiers of God. There are sheep and the brave sheep dogs who guard them from the wolves and this is the hat of those protectors and the soldier of Jesus Christ-God.

This is a USA military-style 100 percent wool beret, made in the USA, not a cheap foreign piece of junk. It is edged in real leather and has a fold down hard placard in the front so the beret maintains its classic shape and can hold up the heavy sterling pin perfectly. These are made to USA military specifications and the best quality.

With the hat comes a large and heavy, solid sterling silver pin that is handmade by a top jeweler, per order. The translation of the pin is solider of God. The skull has a crossed Cossack bear paw whip and a San Michele Sub Hilt Fighter. This is not available anywhere else. Again this is not a tin pin, or stainless steel but solid pure .99 sterling silver, fitting for such a hat.

In the back of this hat is a professionally sewn in leather pocket which contains a 3-ounce lead weight! The hat can save your life if needed and this produces a good blow to disable an attacker for self defense when used with force. No other beret has this feature.

The hats are available in various sizes from 6 3/4 to 7 3/4 so be sure and list your closest size between those. One color, black. $25 postage outside the USA