- Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd August 2014
A Morning Post report on one of Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright’s earliest jiujitsu demonstrations, which took place at St. James’s Hall in London on October 26, 1898.
The journalist was evidently very intrigued by Barton-Wright’s demonstrations of sutemi (sacrifice throws), which – being outside the scope of most European wrestling styles – were an extraordinary novelty.
