Category Archives: Instruction

Bartitsu Home-Training Tip: Indian Clubs Make Great Cane Substitutes

With group classes off the table until further notice, martial arts practitioners are switching en masse to home- and self-training. A handy tip for Bartitsu practitioners is to use an Indian clubs as a substitute for the Vigny cane, whose … Continue reading

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A Review of “Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th January 2019 Here follows a review of the new English-language edition of the instructional DVD Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick According to Pierre Vigny, which was originally released with German-language … Continue reading

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“Guards which are not at all like the guards taught in schools (…)”

In this video, instructor Argent Bracci demonstrates some examples of destructive elbow guards applied to the noble art of fisticuffs: As Edward Barton-Wright noted in the 1901 article Bartitsu: Its Exponent Interviewed, orthodox boxing/savate defences – as typically taught to middle-class … Continue reading

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Bartitsu at Home: Tommy Joe Moore Teaches Cane vs. Multiple Opponents

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Bartitsu at Home: Tommy Joe Moore Teaches Pugilism and Atemi-Waza

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Bartitsu at Home: Tommy Joe Moore Teaches Savate Hand Strikes

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Tommy Joe Moore Teaches the 52 Hand Blocks

Editorial note: several years ago I had the privilege of traveling with my adult son and my teenage nephew to a boxing gym in the Bronx, NYC and meeting with Daniel Marks, who had, over the previous decade, done much … Continue reading

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Yukio Tani’s Kaeshi-No-Kata

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 15th June 2010 An interpretation of the kaeshi-no-kata (forms of countering) devised by former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani during his time as an instructor at the London Budokwai.

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“Schools Where Men are Taught to Defend Themselves Against the Attacks of Street Rowdies” (New York Tribune, August 30, 1903)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 26th May 2010 ART OF STICK DEFENCE. A Ready Means of Warding Off Felonious Assaults. In the crowded city as well as at the lonely crossroads a man never knows when he … Continue reading

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E.W. Barton-Wright’s “overcoat trick”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th April 2010 In the March edition of Pearson’s Magazine, 1899, Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright demonstrated a curious self defence technique making use of an overcoat as a defensive weapon. The provenance of … Continue reading

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