- Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 29th January 2009
As an experienced stick fighter, boxer and expert in “baritsu”, Sherlock Holmes came close to E.W. Barton-Wright’s ideal of Bartitsu. Here’s a selection of fight sequences from the classic 1984 – 1994 Granada Television series The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes:
![](https://web.archive.org/web/20091207102905im_/http://ejmas.com/jmanly/articles/2002/singlestick2/Holmespic.jpg)
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![](https://web.archive.org/web/20091207102905im_/http://lancemannion.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/holmes_and_moriarity.jpg)