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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
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“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
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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
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“Vice, Crime and Poverty: How the Western Imagination Invented the Underworld”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 16th March 2019 This new book by French cultural historian Dominique Kalifa explores the notion of the criminal underworld in Western popular culture, including the infamous Parisian Apache and London hooligan phenomena that fed – and were fed … Continue reading
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“Professor Kano and His Judo School” (from “A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan”, 1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 14th March 2019 Bartitsu founder Edward Barton-Wright spent three years, between roughly 1895-98, living in Kobe, Japan, where he worked as an antimony smelting specialist for E.H. Hunter and Company. By his … Continue reading
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“Raku, the Japanese Wrestler” (1907)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 8th March 2019 Sadakazu Uyenishi was the last of four Japanese jujitsu instructors to be employed at the Bartitsu Club. During 1901, Uyenishi frequently partnered Yukio Tani in Club demonstrations, alternated with Tani in … Continue reading
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Bartitsu Instructor James Marwood Interviewed in “American Express Essentials”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 7th March 2019 Click here to read journalist Jessica Keller’s recent interview with Bartitsu instructor James Marwood for American Express Essentials Magazine: Q – What are a Bartitsu practitioner’s most trusty weapons or resources? … Continue reading
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