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Author Archives: BartitsuSociety
Presenting Miss Persephone Wright …
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 11th June 2014 A special advance glimpse of Miss Persephone Wright, radical suffragette and Bartitsu-trained bodyguard, who stars in the Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy to be published by Jet City Comics.
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Mark Donnelly seminar for the Nutmeg Bartitsu Society (Connecticut)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 11th June 2014 Instructor Mark Donnelly will be teaching another seminar in Connecticut on June 15. Interested parties should RSVP to Twin Dragons Martial Arts by calling (203)265-1516.
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Armand Cherpillod in 1905
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 16th June 2014 A promotional postcard featuring Bartitsu Club wrestling and physical culture instructor Armand Cherpillod, shown posing in typical early 20th century jujitsu garb. According to his 1929 biography, Cherpillod was invited … Continue reading
Samantha Swords at the Gymuseum
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 25th June 2014 Samantha Swords experiments with a pair of antique Indian clubs on display at the Forteza Gymuseum, home of the Bartitsu Club of Chicago.
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Jujitsuffragette!
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 4th July 2014 A member of the secret suffragette Bodyguard society takes down a London bobby in this illustration from the book Bodyguards!: From Gladiators to the Secret Service. Written by Ed Butts, illustrated by … Continue reading
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Antagonisticathlon in France
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th July 2014 Members of the French School of Bartitsu undertake an Antagonisticathlon obstacle course.
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Inside the “Hilltop Dojo” of W.E. Steers (1909)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th July 2014 These excerpts from the article “The Dwelling-House of an Apostle of Health” (“The House Beautiful”, Sept. 1909) offer a further glimpse inside the extraordinary dojo constructed in W.E. Steers’ Hilltop … Continue reading
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“Ancient Swordplay: the Revival of Elizabethan Fencing in Victorian London”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 18th July 2014 During the final decades of the 19th century, a cabal of fencers and historians led by Captain Alfred Hutton and his colleague, the writer Egerton Castle, undertook a systematic study and practical … Continue reading
Glima vs. Three Footpads
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st July 2014 Icelandic wrestler and showman Johannes Josephsson, who exhibited the art of glima wrestling in North American and European music halls during the early 20th century, demonstrates self-defence against not one, … Continue reading
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