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Category Archives: Editorial
“We don’t strictly train in Bartitsu – can we still enter the sparring video contest?”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 8th November 2016 Feedback in the wake of our announcement of the international Bartitsu sparring video contest has included this question, both from groups who practice their own forms of neo-Bartitsu and from groups … Continue reading
The Bartitsu Pronunciation Guide
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th November 2016 Because Bartitsu is a culturally eclectic, Edwardian-era self defence system, revivalists are faced with a variety of words that have fallen out of fashion over the past century or simply … Continue reading
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The Christmas Truce of 1914
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 20th December 2018 In this holiday season marking one century since the end of the First World War, we depart from our usual coverage of Edwardian-era antagonistics to highlight the events of … Continue reading
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“A Sort of Collective Santa Claus”: Sir C. Arthur Pearson and the Poor Children’s Yuletide Association
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 20th December 2017 This holiday-season article offers a departure from our usual focus on Edwardian-era martial arts and combat sports to briefly illuminate a much kinder and, therefore, more important endeavour from … Continue reading
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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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Bartitsu in “Tweed” Magazine
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 8th October 2013 The Bartitsu Club: Isle of Wight has been featured in Tweed Magazine, a German-language periodical of the Anglophile lifestyle.
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Bartitsu in “Black Belt Magazine”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 19th September 2013 Congratulations to Elizabeth Crowens of the Bartitsu Club of New York City, whose article Bartitsu: Reviving the “Mixed” Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes appears in the October/November 2013 issue of Black Belt Magazine.
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Concerning the Bartitsu Compendium, Volumes 1 and 2
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 11th September 2018 By Tony Wolf This article offers a brief “history” of the Bartitsu revival movement, especially via the production of the two volumes of the Bartitsu Compendium in 2005 and … Continue reading
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A Memoir of the Production of “Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 19th September 2017 By Tony Wolf My friend Ran Braun, who is a fight choreographer and also a prominent stage director of operas in Europe, first proposed the idea of a Bartitsu … Continue reading
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Art for Art’s Sake: the Value of Recreational Bartitsu
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd June 2017 By Tony Wolf Recent History The modern Bartitsu revival is now fifteen years old and, like all teenagers, it’s undergoing some significant changes. Most of the original cadre of … Continue reading
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