Author Archives: BartitsuSociety

“Self Defence for Women” by Nohata Showa (1914) Now Translated and Re-Published

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on June 3rd, 2017 Although Emily Diana Watts’ Fine Art of Jujutsu was first published in 1906, Self Defense for Women (1914) may well have been the first booklet written by a female author to specifically deal with jujutsu … Continue reading

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“Girl of Whom Footpads Should Beware” (Daily Mirror, January 22, 1914)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on November 20, 2017 Hetty Beard, the young lady demonstrating umbrella self-defence above, may have been among Pierre and Marguerite Vigny’s students. The Vignys themselves, however, had long departed England for their native Switzerland … Continue reading

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Congratulations to the Winners of the Bartitsu Sparring Video Competition!

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 7th February 2017 The Bartitsu Sparring Video Competition was initiated in November of 2016. The object was to encourage experimentation with a set of sparring guidelines inspired by the styles practiced at the original Bartitsu Club … Continue reading

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Comments from the Winners of the Bartitsu Sparring Video Contest

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 8th February 2017 From Peter Smallridge of the Waterloo Sparring Group: “I was immediately excited by the prospect of the contest. I’ve been training (and sometimes teaching) at the Basingstoke Bartitsu Irregulars … Continue reading

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“Assault-at-Arms at the Bartitsu School” (1901)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 7th February 2017 An advertisement in the Sporting Times, promoting one of the assault-at-arms exhibitions staged at the Bartitsu Club in Shaftesbury Avenue.

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“Attacked by Hooligans”: a Self-Defence Skit with Pierre Vigny and Miss Sanderson

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 5th February 2017 The Friday, 16 October 1903 edition of The Sporting Life included this short description of a self-defence skit performed by Pierre Vigny and “Miss Sanderson”, who was, in her private … Continue reading

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“The Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture” (Monday, 25 November 1901)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 3rd February 2017 The following article, originally published in The Sporting Life, offers fresh details on the multi-style assault-at-arms staged at the London Bartitsu Club during late November of 1901. Several references may … Continue reading

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“… a performer of rare merit”: Pierre Vigny’s Demonstration at the Salle Bertrand

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 1st February 2017 From the Pall Mall Gazette of Thursday, 04 May 1899: It is not often that the London people have such an exhibition of fencing and kindred feats of arms … Continue reading

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Pierre Vigny’s London Self-Defence Exhibitions (June-July 1899)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 31st January 2017 Here follow two further reviews of the series of self-defence exhibitions organised by Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright during mid-1899, to benefit Pierre Vigny, who had then recently arrived in London. Vigny … Continue reading

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Bartitsu Stick Sparring from Chile, Mexico, Germany and the USA

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 14th December 2016

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