Category Archives: Jiujitsu

“The Claims of Ju-Jitsu” (The Sportsman, 4th May 1906)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd September 2017 The following letter to the editor of The Sportsman was written during the ongoing “jujitsu vs. boxing” controversy of 1906-7. The “boxing vs. jujitsu” debate was typically argued from a theoretical … Continue reading →

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“Le Jiu-jitsu” (11 November, 1905)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd August 2017 A gallery of cartoons from the Parisian magazine Le Rire, imagining the impact of jiu-jitsu upon French society in the wake of jiujitsuka Ernest Regnier’s victory over savateur Georges Dubois.

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“Tani, the Japanese Wrestler” (1905)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 11th July 2017 From the 1905 omnibus edition of Mind and Body: A Monthly Journal Devoted to Physical Education: JIU-JITSU HAS 300 MOVES THAT AN EXPERT MUST KNOW, AND HE CAN THEN DEFEAT ANY … Continue reading →

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“Clever and Adroit”: More on the 1902 Nottingham Bartitsu Exhibitions

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th April 2017 The following article from the Tuesday, 25 March 1902 edition of the Nottingham Journal is the most detailed report yet discovered on the short series of Bartitsu exhibitions held in … Continue reading →

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“Jiu-Jitsu in the Navy” (1907)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 3rd April 2017 From the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News – Saturday 21 September, 1907: Jiu-Jitsu was first taught in the Navy officially about a year ago to a selected number of … Continue reading →

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“Barnard College Girls Becoming Experts in Jiu Jitsu Art” (Allentown Leader, Feb. 9, 1916)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 26th January 2016

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“The Gentle Art of Self Defence: A Strange and Mysterious Set of Manoeuvres Calculated to Upset the Mental Balance of Your Adversary” (1899)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on June 3rd, 2017 The anonymous author of this March 15, 1899 To-Day Magazine satire wittily skewers E.W Barton-Wright’s “New Art of Self Defence” series for Pearson’s Magazine. ONE of the monthly magazines which … Continue reading →

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“Chucker-Out of the Unwanted: Muscular Maude” (1917)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

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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Bartitsucon 2018 Classes and Instructors

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018 Participants in the upcoming Bartitsucon 2018 event will experience the full range of Bartitsu training, along with some related skills, as taught by no fewer than six instructors.  In … Continue reading →

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Mary Russell, the “Flying Duchess”

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

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 →

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