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Shooting Fight Scenes for “No Man Shall Protect Us”, the Suffrajitsu Documentary
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 5th March 2018 The past week of production on No Man Shall Protect Us: The Hidden History of the Suffragette Bodyguards has included black-screen studio action scenes performed by a very talented pair of … Continue reading
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Bartitsu/Vigny Stick Sparring
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 11th March 2018 Andres Morales of Chile (in the white-trimmed fencing mask) demonstrates the quick, deceptive Vigny canne style, as incorporated into Bartitsu circa 1900. As described by a journalist from The Sporting … Continue reading
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The Bamboo Pole Trick
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 12th March 2018 This photo published in the Italian journal La Stampa Sportiva (November, 1903) shows former Bartitsu Club instructor Sadakazu Uyenishi wheeling out an old favourite. The “bamboo pole trick” had been a … Continue reading
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“The Art of Self Defence” (1909)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 18th March 2018 The following article by N. Tegan Lewis was originally published in the Women’s Freedom League newspaper of April 22, 1909, following the jiujitsu self-defence displays by Edith Garrud at … Continue reading
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“Stick Fighting in Trinidad” (Diss Express – 14 March, 1919)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 18th March 2018 The following short article is notable for its reference to the Trinidadian stick fighting style of “playing bois”, which is closely cognate to the Grenadian bois stick style that … Continue reading
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“A Ju-jitsu Festival in Kyoto, Japan” (1909)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th March 2018 Sketch artist Tom Brown recorded his impressions of a “ju-jitsu festival” taking place in Kyoto for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of November 13, 1909. He noted that he admired … Continue reading
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Jujitsu at Glen Parva Barracks (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 14th April 2018 Although he had been brought to London to partner Yukio Tani in teaching and demonstrating Japanese unarmed combat via the Bartitsu Club, Sadakazu “Raku” Uyenishi went his own way … Continue reading
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Sergeant George Wheeldon’s Police Self-Defence (circa 1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 17th April 2018 The City of London police history blog Plodd in the Square Mile offers this short but informative article on Sergeant George Wheeldon, who essentially pioneered the systematic practice of unarmed self-defence within … Continue reading
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In Memoriam: Master-at-Arms John Waller
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 22nd April 2018 The international historical European martial arts and stage combat communities mourn the recent passing of John Waller, who was a modern pioneer in both fields. Possessed of a life-long … Continue reading
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