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Author Archives: BartitsuSociety
An Exhibition of Ju-Jitsu at Aldershot: A Lady Throws a Man (The Graphic – Saturday, 08 April 1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th March 2016 Ju-jitsu or the Japanese scientific wrestling, now being taught by a Japanese professor, Professor Uyenishi, of Seibouhan, Japan, to the Aldershot Gymnastic Staff, formed, perhaps, the greatest attraction at … Continue reading
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Portraits of Sadakazu “Raku” Uyenishi
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th March 2016 Sadakazu Uyenishi was aged just twenty years when he arrived in London to join E.W. Barton-Wright’s new Bartitsu enterprise during the year 1900. Although he was young, Uyenishi was … Continue reading
The Life’s Work of Percy Longhurst
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th March 2016 Percy William Longhurst (1874-1959) was a lifelong wrestling and antagonistics enthusiast, a prolific writer and a significant figure in the history of Bartitsu. Unfortunately, comparatively little is known of … Continue reading
Society Women Wrestlers: Ladies’ Craze for Japanese Ju-jitsu (Daily Mirror, April 4, 1904)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 6th March 2016 Note – “Lady Clara Vere de Vere”, referred to below, is actually a character in an 1840s poem of the same title by Alfred, Lord Tennyson; the author of … Continue reading
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“The World We Live In: Self-Defence” – Some Words of Wisdom from Suffragette Martial Arts Trainer Edith Garrud
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 13th March 2016 The following article was first published in Votes for Women, the newspaper of the Women’s Social and Political Union, during March of 1910. At that time, Edith Garrud (right, above) … Continue reading
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Registration Now Open for the 2nd International Pugilism Symposium
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 21st March 2016 When? Saturday May 21 and Sunday May 22, 2016 Where? River Valley Complex in Leaf River, IL. Two days of intensive instruction in historic bare knuckle boxing with some of the … Continue reading