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Author Archives: BartitsuSociety
“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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How To Make A Kingsman-Style Gunbrella (Sort Of)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 13th September 2017 In honour of (and to help promote) the upcoming release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Hacksmith YouTube channel has been challenged to create a Kingsman-style weaponised umbrella: In the pedantic interests … Continue reading
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The Christmas Truce of 1914
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 20th December 2018 In this holiday season marking one century since the end of the First World War, we depart from our usual coverage of Edwardian-era antagonistics to highlight the events of … Continue reading
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Alex Kiermayer Seminar in Nürnberg
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 23rd October 2017 A photo from instructor Alex Kiermayer’s recent Bartitsu seminar for the Zanchin Kampfkunst martial arts club in Nürnberg, Germany.
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