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“Ju-ji-tsu Champion: Interesting Display and Interview with Professor Uyenishi” (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd March 2017 From the Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 15 April, 1905: The local Companies of Engineers are to congratulated on affording the Hastings public their first experience the wonderful Japanese style of … Continue reading
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“Why Not Invent an English Art of Ju-jitsu?” (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd March 2017 The following anonymous letter to the editor was originally published in the St. James’s Gazette of March 9th, 1905. Sir, —Jujitsu seems to be the fashionable graven image of … Continue reading
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“The Lost Art of Self-Defence – Forgotten Methods of Fighting Revived by a Viennese Fencing Club” (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd March 2017 The turn of the 20th century was something of a boom time for academic and popular interest in unusual fighting styles, exemplified by Bartitsu’s eclectic combination of Japanese and … Continue reading
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Selbstverteidigung – Self-Defence Sketches by Edmund Erpf (1920)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 11th March 2017 A series of studies by the German artist Edmund Erpf (1883-1977), drawing inspiration from boxing, savate and jiujitsu:
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“What Every Woman Ought to Know” (1911)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 20th April 2017 A short review from The Stage of 14 September, 1911, concerning a one-act polemic play that featured fight choreography by Edith Garrud: On Monday evening Mr. Martyn Roland and Miss Eva Quin appeared … Continue reading
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