Category Archives: Vigny stick fighting

Bartitsu Demonstration at the Polish Army Museum

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 30th September 2018 Members of the Club L’Extreme Est of Warsaw, Poland exhibited Bartitsu at the Polish War Museum on Saturday, September 23.  The demonstration was based on the martial arts journey of Edward Barton-Wright … Continue reading

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A Photo Gallery from Day 1 of BartitsuCon 2018

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd November 2018

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“Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick” DVD Now Available in English!

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 20th December 2018 An English-language version of the instructional DVD Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick is now available via this link and will become available to the US market via the Freelance Academy Press.  The … Continue reading

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Canne Vigny and Defense dans la Rue Seminar in Australia

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 31st January 2019 Instructor and pioneering Vigny cane revivalist Craig Gemeiner will be offering a seminar in Vigny cane fighting and defense dans la rue (early 20th century French street self-defence) on … Continue reading

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English Edition of “Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick” Now Available via Vimeo and the Freelance Academy Press

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 7th February 2019 The new English-language version of Alex Kiermayer’s excellent instructional video series is now available as a series of streaming downloads from Vimeo.com. The entire series runs two hours and fifty-four … Continue reading

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“Street Self-Defence: How to Handle the Hooligan” (1904)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 10th February 2019 Originally published in The People newspaper of October 23, 1904, this newly rediscovered article offers a rare glimpse into former Bartitsu Club instructor Pierre Vigny’s Hinde Street school.  Although … Continue reading

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Pierre and Marguerite Vigny at the Royal Albert Hall (1904)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th January 2019 In early 1904, former Bartitsu Club instructor Pierre Vigny set up his own self-defence school in London.  By July of that year he and his wife/associate instructor Marguerite (a.k.a. “Miss … Continue reading

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“New Weapon Against Hooliganism: The Walking Stick as a Means of Defence” (1902)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 28th March 2019 Following the Bartitsu Club’s “Anglo-Japanese Tournament” tour of early-mid 1902, the Club dissolved and the former instructors all went their own ways.  The subject of this September 14, 1902 … Continue reading

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Who Was the Bartitsu Club’s Mysterious “Instructor Hubert”?

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 1st September 2017 The roster of instructors at E.W. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu School of Arms included Pierre Vigny (savate and walking stick defence), Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi (jiujitsu), Armand Cherpillod (wrestling and … Continue reading

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The Rear Guard and the Guard by Distance

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th July 2017 The rear guard, also referred to by E.W. Barton-Wright as the “left guard”, is one of the signature defensive stances of the Vigny style of stick fighting. It was … Continue reading

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