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Category Archives: Video
“Self-Defence with a Bicycle” Video from the 2017 Dreynevent
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 19th February 2017 A humourous and enlightening demonstration of Self-Defence with a Bicycle, animating the lessons of Marcus Tindal’s eccentric 1901 Pearson’s Magazine article. The demo took place at the recent Dreynevent historical European … Continue reading
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Bartitsu Stick Sparring with Experimental “Gentlemen’s Canes”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 24th April 2017 Some dynamic Bartitsu-style sparring from the Szkola Fechtunku Aramis classical fencing school in Poland. The sparring canes are made according to the school’s own design, shown in more detail below:
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Vigny-Style Sparring in Santiago, Chile
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 6th May 2017 Walking-stick sparring in the Bartitsu/Vigny style, as practiced in Santiago, Chile. Note the tactical shifts between the double-handed, rear and front guards:
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More Vigny Cane Fighting by the Santiago Stickfighters
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th May 2017
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A “Suffragette Bartitsu Brawl” Video from Fight Rep
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd June 2017 Fighting for the vote, the Suffragettes have planted an explosive device. As they attempt to make their escape, a husband sells out his wife’s cause to the special constables … Continue reading
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Rare Mid-20th Century Film of Vigny/Lang stickfighting
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd June 2017 It’s well-known that the method of walking stick defence taught at the Bartitsu Club circa 1900 was devised by Pierre Vigny. Vigny himself instructed Bartitsu students in his system, … Continue reading
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The Story of the Jujitsuffragettes, Courtesy of “Drunk History UK”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 17th July 2017 In these excerpts from a recent episode of “Drunk History UK”, inebriated comedienne Luisa Omielan attempts to relate the history of the jujitsu-trained suffragette Bodyguard team: Bonus points for … Continue reading
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Charles Charlemont’s Students Demonstrate Savate and la Canne (1928)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 5th August 2017 This newly-released sound film from the Fox Movietone Archive shows training drills and bouting by students of Professor Charles Charlemont. At the turn of the 20th century, Charlemont had … Continue reading
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Suffragette Self-Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th August 2017 In this short scene from the 2015 movie Suffragette, newly militant Maude Watts (Carey Mulligan) receives her first lesson in jiujitsu from Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter). In real history, Edith Garrud served … Continue reading
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