Author Archives: BartitsuSociety

“Ladies Night at the Bath Club”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 9th March 2014 A short account and illustration of the famous Bartitsu and historical fencing exhibition at the London Bath Club, courtesy of the The Sussex Agricultural Express, 17 March 1899: One of … Continue reading →

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The Great Anglo-Japanese Tournament (Nottingham, 1902)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 9th March 2014 An advertisement for the Great Anglo-Japanese Tournament in Nottingham, from the Nottingham Evening Post, 21 March 1902:

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Captain Laing on Adapting Bartitsu Stick Fighting for Army Swordsmanship

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 20th March 2014 Frederick Charles Laing was born in India on December 5th of 1865, the son of Major Frederick Ernest Laing and Lucy Augusta Laing. The young Frederick attended an English … Continue reading →

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Ambidexterity in Bartitsu Stick Fighting

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 23rd March 2014 Above: Bartitsu Club stick fighting instructor Pierre Vigny (left) demonstrates ambidexterity via several technical options from the double-handed guard. The active use of ambidextrous attacks from the double-handed guard … Continue reading →

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“What are ‘canonical’ and ‘neo’ Bartitsu?”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 28th March 2014 The explosive success of the Sherlock Holmes movies have embedded an awareness of Victorian-era martial arts into the popular imagination. In the wake of that success, it may be useful to … Continue reading →

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Sherlockian Self-Defence with a Walking Stick (1988)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 31st March 2014 Members of the Sherlock Holmes Society posing as the characters Reginald Musgrave and Baron Gruner engage in a spot of walking-stick combat during the Society’s annual pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls.

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Suffrajitsu! (March, 1914)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 12th April 2014 (Iterations of the following article appeared in many newspapers during mid-late March of 1914.) It has come at last! The word for which the world has long waited, the … Continue reading →

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Self-Defense for Suffragettes – Free Bartitsu Class and Exhibit of Suffragette Artifacts

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 16th April 2014 Have you always wanted to learn a martial art or be the kind of man or woman who is truly “kick-ass” but in a genteel and civilized way? The … Continue reading →

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Fight Scene from “Suffragette”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st April 2014 Below: a stuntman and stuntwoman rehearse a fight scene on the set of Suffragette, currently in production in London. The movie is scheduled to be released in 2015.

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“A safe way for one man to disable another when both are equally well armed with sticks”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 22nd April 2014  Members of the Battersea Bartitsu Club work variations on the canonical set-play “A safe way for one man to disable another when both are equally well armed with sticks” (shown below).

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