Categories
- Academia
- Antagonistics
- Baritsu
- Bartitsu School of Arms
- Biography
- Boxing
- Canonical Bartitsu
- Documentary
- E. W. Barton-Wright
- Editorial
- Edwardiana
- Exhibitions
- Fencing
- Fiction
- Hooliganism
- Humour
- In Memoriam
- Instruction
- Interviews
- Jiujitsu
- Mysteries
- Physical Culture
- Pop-culture
- Reviews
- Savate
- Seminars
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sparring
- Suffrajitsu
- Uncategorized
- Video
- Vigny stick fighting
- Wrestling
Author Archives: BartitsuSociety
Bartitsu Club Instructor Yukio Tani in Action?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 31st December 2012 This newsreel clip was shot at a gala day at London’s Kensington Palace Field in the year 1928. The first half features a boxing exhibition by Alf Mancini, who was … Continue reading
For Your Listening Pleasure: “Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman” and “The Bare Fists of Boxing”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 3rd February 2012 The Art of Manliness website presents a podcast interview with David Waller, author of the new biography The Perfect Man: the Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow, Victorian Stongman. Sandow … Continue reading
Posted in Boxing, Edwardiana, Interviews, Physical Culture
Comments Off on For Your Listening Pleasure: “Eugen Sandow, Victorian Strongman” and “The Bare Fists of Boxing”
“It was jiu-jitsu!” (1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd January 2012 I drew a deep breath as I mastered the contents of this momentous document. Then, just as I was about to replace it in the ingenious receptacle contrived for … Continue reading
Posted in Edwardiana, Fiction, Jiujitsu
Comments Off on “It was jiu-jitsu!” (1906)
“The Best Self Defence” (1910)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd November 2011 Some sound advice in this article from the Australian Northern Star of November 25, 1910. The anonymous writer may well not have been aware of Bartitsu, which actually included … Continue reading
Posted in Antagonistics
Comments Off on “The Best Self Defence” (1910)
“Foiling the Ubiquitous Thug” (1912)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 27th October 2011 A selection of illustrations from the New York Tribune article Unarmed Citizens May Here Learn How To Foil The Ubiquitous Thug (March 10, 1912).
Posted in Antagonistics
Comments Off on “Foiling the Ubiquitous Thug” (1912)
Professors of Self Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd December 2010 I resolved on putting myself into the hands of some professor of self-defence, who whilst he knocked me about for his amusement, and worked me into a state of … Continue reading
Posted in Antagonistics, Editorial, Edwardiana
Comments Off on Professors of Self Defence
“New Weapon Against Hooliganism: The Walking Stick as a Means of Defence” (1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 28th March 2019 Following the Bartitsu Club’s “Anglo-Japanese Tournament” tour of early-mid 1902, the Club dissolved and the former instructors all went their own ways. The subject of this September 14, 1902 … Continue reading
Posted in Vigny stick fighting
Comments Off on “New Weapon Against Hooliganism: The Walking Stick as a Means of Defence” (1902)
Edith Garrud and Suffrajitsu Featured in “Beauty Bites Beast”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 21st March 2019 Self-defence expert Ellen Snortland’s 2016 documentary Beauty Bites Beast includes a short feature on Edith Garrud’s role in training the “Amazons” of the women’s suffrage movement. The suffrajitsu excerpt, including images … Continue reading
Posted in Documentary, Suffrajitsu, Video
Comments Off on Edith Garrud and Suffrajitsu Featured in “Beauty Bites Beast”