Category Archives: Video

Bartitsu Featured on InnerSPACE

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 19th January 2013 Click this link to watch a short demo. and explanation of Bartitsu courtesy of the Riot A.C.T. stunt team, towards promoting author Adrienne Kress’s new steampunk/girl-power novel, The Friday Society. The item … Continue reading

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Bartitsu and Umbrella Self Defence at the Academie Duello (Vancouver, Canada)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 23rd January 2013 Click this link to watch a short video report by Vancouver Province reporter Stuart Derdeyn, interviewing Academie Duello Bartitsu instructor David McCormick.

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The “Knowledge of the Stick” in Napoleonic France

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd March 2013 This short essay on the practicalities and wisdom of stick fighting is excerpted from “The Story of the Stick in All Ages and Lands” (1875), by Antony Réal. I … Continue reading

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Bartitsu and Suffrajitsu in “Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: The Rise of the Martial Arts in Great Britain”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 5th March 2013

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The Bartitsu Club of New York City on “Edge of America”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 18th March 2013

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Jiujitsu Film Footage from 1912

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 21st March 2013 This 1912 vintage newsreel footage is among the earliest film recordings of Japanese martial arts techniques. The film, which was probably shot in Paris, begins with a demonstration of … Continue reading

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Sparring with Crook Canes

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 16th April 2013

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Savate (Boxe Française) on Film, Circa 1898

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 17th April 2013 Attributed to the Lumiere brothers and dated circa 1898, this film appears to be one of the earliest cinematographic representations of la boxe française. The athletes may be soldiers at the famous … Continue reading

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The Bartitsu Club of New York City at the Observatory

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 26th April 2013

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Bartitsu Article and Video Featured in the Wall Street Journal

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 24th May 2013 Click here to read reporter Angus Loten’s Wall Street Journal article on Bartitsu. The accompanying video (above) features instructor Mark Donnelly’s classes at the recent Steampunk World’s Fair event in Piskataway, New Jersey. The print version … Continue reading

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