#nigelfebruary

Attacks towards my family are still going on and I do not have a choice but to protect myself. Quite sure that I am not first and last person who suffered from Nigel E. February cult. In the beginning things were about letters of insults emailed to me and my wife, but now this is turning into an open threat of violence. They use phone pranks, fake accounts on the Internet, they call to place my wife works in and try to discredit her. Now these people are causing actual material damage. But since they do all this not under their real names, legally I have no reason to make a report to the police. 

It has started in late 2014. I have been interested in martial arts for more than 20 years. Passion for knives, swords and the history of martial arts has been there since long.
It began long before moving to Italy. Nothing new in that I was interested in the Piper system, which I saw on one of the sites. I have seen the video with Nigel E. February showing the technique that he calls Piper.

Later I found out that technique I saw is used by criminals in the streets of Cape Town. I liked the demonstration of different techniques performed by Nigel E. February so much that I did not attach much importance to this nuance. Now I regret about that. 



I was into Piper for about a year and a half. I had been training by watching videos, visited South Africa several times for private sessions with instructors. I'm quite a big guy and it was not easy to master it as much as I wanted. Things important in Piper are flexibility, speed and quick response. At the end of 2016, one of Nigel E. February’s friends got in touch with me. His name is Alastair Taaffe, guy from Australia.

On the outside this guy seemed rather smiling and well minded. He has a beautiful family on the photos and I was not even suspicious of how this communication would end. 

While I was doing Piper, I have noticed certain odds but closed my eyes on them. Example, almost all people of Nigel E. February have images with blood and skulls in their social network pages. I thought it was more of a fetish and some kind of joke. 

In November 2016 Alastair Taaffe invited me to think about opening a Piper branch in Italy. There are such branches in the US, Germany, UK. I liked the idea, but when he told me that in order to do so it is necessary to go through an initiation and some kind of a ritual, I thought he was joking. He began to talk about the spirit of Nongoloza, about the fact that Nigel E. February is the new incarnation of Nongoloza Matebula - a bandit from Johannesburg who at the beginning of the 20th century established a military band outside the law in South Africa. Then, Alastair Taaffe began speaking about magical abilities of Nigel E. February, that he is bulletproof and all this is because he is an embodiment of Nongoloza. Besides, he said that only the one who experienced death can establish a branch. Allegedly, one gets new powers, can bring new people in and become an apostle of Nongoloza. To be honest, I was shocked and asked to think over for a few days.

I am not quite a religious man, but I am a respectable family man and certainly was not ready to become a slave of this Nongoloza leader from South Africa. Business is one thing, religion is a completely different thing. Things were suspicious. My wife told me even before that it is some kind of a cult and that they are trying to drag me in. Two days later I just wrote that I'm not ready to open a Piper branch in Italy. I thought that this would be it, but the next day I received a message saying that I cannot refuse as I have learned too much.