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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
“To Invite an Attack”: Tactical Guards in Canonical Bartitsu Stick Fighting
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 24th October 2015 It is always most desirable to try to entice your adversary to deliver a certain blow, and so place yourself at a great advantage by being prepared to guard … Continue reading →
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“Skill Against Strength” (1899)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 2nd July 2014 This somewhat tongue-in-cheek review/essay, inspired by Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright’s first self defence articles for Pearson’s Magazine, was originally published in the Australian newspaper Table Talk on April 21, … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu at the Museum of London
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 25th November 2014 Instructor James Garvey demonstrates a canonical Bartitsu takedown as part of his November 21 presentation for the Museum of London’s exhibition, Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die.
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Tony Wolf Bartitsu Seminar Video
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 21st December 2014 Highlights from a two-hour introductory Bartitsu seminar taught by instructor Tony Wolf at the CombatCon martial arts conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of this class was to … Continue reading →
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NYC Bartitsu in the New York Times
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 27th February 2015 Members of the Bartitsu Club of NYC pose for the recent New York Times article Regilding the Gilded Age in New York.
Bartitsu Demonstration and Artisan Fair (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 2nd June 2015 June 20, 201512 pm – 4 pmLuckenbach MillHistoric Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Learn Bartitsu, the gentleman’s form of self-defense popular in Victorian London. Mark Donnelly is an expert in the fighting … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu in Toulouse, France
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 11th July 2015 A Bartitsu class at the Ost du Griffon Noir historical martial arts club in Toulouse, France, taught by instructors Claire Hugues and Johann Perrigault (below).
Allen Reed UK Seminar
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 24th July 2015 Instructor Allen Reed will be in the UK at the beginning of August, and has offered to run a one day seminar in Basingstoke covering the essentials of Bartitsu … Continue reading →
“The Gentle Art of Chucking-Out and Midnight Murder”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 27th July 2015 From “The Truth”, March 16, 1899: Very interesting indeed was the display of Elizabethan sword-play at the Bath Club last week. Messrs. Fraser, Johnson, Cooke, Gate, and the President, … Continue reading →
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“Directly You Are Seized, Strike Your Assailant”: the Atemi-waza of Canonical Bartitsu
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 9th August 2015 The Bartitsu canon consists of the close-combat techniques presented as Bartitsu by E.W. Barton-Wright and his colleagues between the years 1898-1902. Most notably, they include the various jiujitsu kata … Continue reading →
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