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Suffragette Self-Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th August 2017 In this short scene from the 2015 movie Suffragette, newly militant Maude Watts (Carey Mulligan) receives her first lesson in jiujitsu from Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter). In real history, Edith Garrud served … Continue reading
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“Baritsu (sic) and Bluff” – a Critical Article on Bartitsu from 1901
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 19th August 2017 The anonymous author of this article from the Pall Mall Gazette of 27 August, 1901 turns a sharply critical eye to E.W. Barton-Wright’s promotion of Bartitsu. Noting for the sake … Continue reading
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“Suffrajitsu: The Women Who Fought Back”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 24th August 2017 Congratulations to high school senior Erin Lowe, whose dramatic presentation Suffrajitsu: The Women Who Fought Back won the first prize in the Senior Individual Performance category during a recent National History … Continue reading
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Umbrella vs. Knife in a Hamburg Back-alley (Swing Kids, 1993)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 4th September 2017 In this short fight scene from the movie Swing Kids, Peter Müller (Christian Bale) takes on a knife-wielding member of the Hitlerjugend, applying some deft umbrella techniques that will be … Continue reading
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The Gentlemanly Art of 19th Century Cane Fighting in … 1990s Russia!?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 6th September 2017 The 1990 Russian sociopolitical satire Bakenbardy (“Side-whiskers”) is distinguished as the only feature film in which walking stick fighting serves as a crucial plot device. It’s also a pertinent warning as … Continue reading
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“How Sir Hiram Maxim Met the Hooligan” (St James’s Gazette, 24 June 1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 8th September 2017 In which the estimable inventor Hiram Maxim, best-remembered today for devising the world’s first portable machine gun, tells of how he fended off a London hooligan with his fists and … Continue reading
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“A Jiu-Jitsu Battle Royale in Paris”: Tani vs. Higashi (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 13th September 2017 The following two accounts offer a fairly complete record of the controversial 29 November, 1905 jiujitsu match between former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani and Tsutsumi Hōzan-ryū stylist Katsukuma … Continue reading
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