Monthly Archives: April 2026

The Crossguard Parry in Vigny Stick Fighting

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Edith Garrud Jiujitsu Gallery (c. 1910)

The Getty Archive offers this gallery of extremely rare photographs of Edith Garrud and her students demonstrating jiujitsu techniques circa 1910.

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Raising Cane in CHiPs (1982)

The latest installment of our very occasional but long-running “umbrella/cane fight scene” series takes us back to 1982. In this action-packed episode of CHiPs, reformed karate gang leader (which was a thing, but only sort of) Andy Macedon (Lewis Van … Continue reading

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