Category Archives: Savate

“Studies in Savate” (Sunday Oregonian, May 20, 1900)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on June 3rd, 2017

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“The Dwarf of Blood” Reviews a Savate Exhibition at the Alhambra Theatre (1898)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on October 30th, 2018 Colonel Nathaniel Newnham-Davis, who wrote a popular column for the Sporting Life newspaper under the  “Dwarf of Blood” pseudonym, was clearly a connoisseur of antagonistic novelties.  Of all the English journalists … Continue reading

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Bartitsucon 2018 Classes and Instructors

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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“The Duel with the Fashionable Pointed Shoes” (Circa 1885)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th October 2018

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Boxe Française Historique: a Reconstruction of Classical Savate Sparring

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 24th May 2018 The recent HEMAC historical martial arts conference in Dijon, France included this fascinating reconstruction of 19th century Boxe Française – Savate sparring by members of the Fédération Française des Arts Martiaux Historiques Européens. … Continue reading

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The Bartitsu School of Arms: Beamish Museum, 2013

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 12th February 2013 Announcing the third international Bartitsu symposium, to take place at Beamish Museum near Newcastle, UK, between September 14th and 15th, 2013. Update: the Google Groups email list for the … 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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“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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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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The Bartitsu School of Arms: Chicago, 2012

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 25th April 2012 Announcing the second international Bartitsu symposium, to take place in the great city of Chicago, USA between September 8th and 9th, 2012. The event is hosted by the Bartitsu Club … Continue reading

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