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Author Archives: BartitsuSociety
“Chucker-Out of the Unwanted: Muscular Maude” (1917)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018 Actress Doris Lytton puts up her dukes as Maude Bray, a supporting character in the 1917 theatrical farce Wanted: a Husband. Hilarity ensues when one of Maude’s friends advertises for … Continue reading
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“The Problem of Lancashire Kicking” (January 30, 1880)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018 When E.W. Barton-Wright introduced Bartitsu at the turn of the 20th century, the English (or, at least, the middle-class London) bias against kicking was well-established. The reasons for that … Continue reading
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“The Duel with the Fashionable Pointed Shoes” (Circa 1885)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018
Bartitsu at the Vacheron Constantin FiftySix Launch Event
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th October 2018 Instructor James Garvey (right, above) demonstrates Bartitsu during a recent London media event launching the Vacheron Constantin FiftySix collection, a range of luxury watches. The three-day event drew more than 100 international … Continue reading
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Bartitsu at the Savile Club
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th October 2018 Instructors Tommy Joe Moore (left) and James Marwood (right) demonstrate Bartitsu during a recent private black-tie function at the Savile Club, a gentlemen’s club in Mayfair, London.
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Mary Russell, the “Flying Duchess”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 7th October 2018 Emily (Diana) Watts‘ 1905 book The Fine Art of Jujutsu is historically significant as the first Japanese unarmed combat manual to have been written by a woman, and also the first … Continue reading
“Jiu-jitsu Against Boxing” (1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 2nd October 2018 Victor Breyer’s rather intricate article from La Vie au Grand Air of January 12, 1906 illustrates some of the puzzles faced by European fighters in adapting to Japanese jiujitsu. … Continue reading
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An Exhibition of Old-School Fisticuffs
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 7th August 2018 Bartitsu instructor Alex Kiermayer (in black pants) and his colleague Christoph Reinberger perform an exhibition of bare-knuckle pugilism at the Coburg Zeitreise 2018. Although this is clearly a friendly demonstration rather … Continue reading
Yukio Tani vs. the Cornish Wrestlers (Western Morning News, 12/11/1926)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 7th August 2018 There follows a detailed account of three encounters between former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani and a trio of Cornish wrestling champions. Although the rules aren’t entirely clear, they … Continue reading