'Fiore tells us that "Some people will think that I mixed up useful and unuseful techniques, but he makes a great mistake as I have only described the ones I saw, used, or created, and I omitted the unsafe ones."
These were the same techniques he used to kill many men in war, and in a number of personal combats to the death, without some of the more "speculative" techniques of later manuals, where the authors were perhaps more distantly removed from this sort of brutal life.'
Peter Kautz