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Category Archives: Antagonistics
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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Arturo Bonafont’s 1930 Cane Defence Book Now Translated and Available!
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 24th April 2018 The first decades of the 20th century saw a marked shift in approaches to the use of the walking stick as a weapon of self-defence. Whereas cane manuals had … Continue reading
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The Bonafont Cane Style in Action
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 1st May 2018 The prolific and talented Andres Morales of Chile demonstrates the Bonafont cane fighting style of 1920s and ’30s Argentina.
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“Observations on Practical Self-Defence”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 31st July 2018 The anonymous author of this short article from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 5 January, 1924, lands squarely on the side of pragmatism as a guiding tactic … Continue reading
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Antagonistics at THEMA 2016
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd September 2018 A video memoir of fisticuffs/savate, French wrestling, self-defence and Bartitsu classes at the December, 2016 Toulouse Historical Martial Arts gathering:
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Bartitsu Gift Ideas 2018
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 30th November 2018 The Bartitsu Compendium, Volume 1: History and the Canonical Syllabus (2005) and The Bartitsu Compendium Volume II: Antagonistics (2008) Compiled by members of the Bartitsu Society, volumes 1 and 2 of the … Continue reading
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“The Fatal Objection to All Such Plans …” (1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 16th February 2019 The anonymous author of this short article, originally published in the Perthshire Advertiser of 31 October, 1902, makes the valid point that the first rule towards winning a fight is to know … Continue reading
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“Glima: Wonders of the Secret Sport of Iceland Which Beats Ju-Jitsu” (1911)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 6th December 2018 This self-defence article by the Icelandic wrestler and showman Johannes Josefsson was published in the Sydney Sun newspaper on June 9th, 1911. Readers familiar with the basics of both jiujitsu and … Continue reading
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“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
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