I am Tomasso Dragna, currently employed as a Background Investigator for a federal contractor. In my real life, I fence, think about politics and political theory, and cook, as well as move through my own artistic expressions.
In fencing, I started in 2011 at Pasadena City College fencing the three Olympic weapons, favoring sabre. I have taught at PCC, the Southern California Renaissance Faire, and at CSU Channel Islands. I competed in team sabre fencing in the Southern California Intercollegiate League at UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and California Technical Institute. During this time I found the rules were inhibiting more pure swordsmanship, so I started moving toward more classical styles of fencing. When I moved to CSU Channel Islands, I started instructing classical fencing and sent a few students to tournaments but I began speaking against going to tournaments as a means of expressing the ultimate of fencing. When I moved to Portland, I joined up with Northwest Armizzare and started learning Italian longsword and dueling sabre, as well as Georgian sword and buckler. I also picked up some rapier, dagger, and various other weapons. It was here that I learned fencing can be more than just a sport, that western swordsmanship can be a true martial art. Currently I instruct on occasion at Sabre Escrime of Pasadena where I teach sabre and dagger, as well as focusing on my own practice of Italian partisan (with and without the rotella).
I began my political thought in high school when I started working toward going to law school in various pre-pre-law classes. After my time in the Army, I decided I did not want to be a lawyer but got more interested in politics. At CSU Channel Islands I found myself enjoying political theory and I tend to angle my arguments from a theory point of view. Parties are temporary, the theory is eternal. I found myself aligning with classical liberal theory with great influence of Roman and English republicanism. I spent my time at Portland State University arguing against the encroaching socialist subversion.
In cooking I mostly cook Southern Italian and Sicilian peasant dishes, as well as southern Asian dishes.