Author Archives: BartitsuSociety

Ambushed! (1905)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 11th February 2013 A dramatic sketch of French jujitsu pioneer Ernest Regnier, who operated under the quasi-Japanese nom de guerre of “Professor Re-Nie”, being headbutted by “Witzler”, a professional wrestler. The assault apparently … Continue reading →

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Tony Wolf Bartitsu Seminar in Colorado (May 4)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 13th February 2013 At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing and stick fighting into the “New Art of Self Defence” known as Bartitsu. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu Club … Continue reading →

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The Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture 2013: Beamish Museum, UK

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 22nd February 2013 We’re very pleased to announce that the third annual Bartitsu School of Arms symposium will be held between September 14/15 at Beamish, the Living Museum of the North, near … Continue reading →

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“An incredible skill in the art of strangulation”: the Phantom of the Opera’s “Punjab lasso”

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd February 2013 The so-called “Punjab lasso” is the signature weapon of Erik, the charismatic, homicidal genius anti-villain of Gaston Leroux’s classic serial novel, The Phantom of the Opera (1909-1910). Just as Leroux’s original story … Continue reading →

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“Jiu-jitsu: An Editor’s Experience” (1917)

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 5th December 2013 The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial, Monday, 32 April, 1917 – In Sir Arthur Pearson’s reminiscences in the January number of Pearson’s Magazine, is his account of how he … Continue reading →

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The Swordswoman: Esme Beringer

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 28th February 2013  Directly paralleling the revival of Bartitsu, the modern revival of historical fencing as a martial art has become well-established over the past fifteen years. However, a remarkably similar revival of “ancient swordplay” … Continue reading →

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Exercising on Board the Titanic

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Courtesy of 3Dhistory.de, a colourised image of the on-board gymnasium of the ill-fated RMS Titanic. As a physical culture enthusiast, it’s likely that former Bartitsu Club member Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon would have made use of this gym prior to the night of April … Continue reading →

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The “Knowledge of the Stick” in Napoleonic France

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd March 2013 This short essay on the practicalities and wisdom of stick fighting is excerpted from “The Story of the Stick in All Ages and Lands” (1875), by Antony Réal. I … Continue reading →

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Keep Calm …

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 4th March 2013

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Bartitsu and Suffrajitsu in “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of the Martial Arts in Great Britain”

Posted on December 26, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 5th March 2013

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