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Category Archives: Canonical Bartitsu
Bartitsu at Sherlockon Poland 2018
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd June 2018 Bartitsu demonstrations will be part of the festivities at the second Sherlockon Poland convention, taking place between June 30-July 1 2018 at the Ursynów Culture Center in Warsaw, Poland.
“The Most Dangerous Kick of an Expert Kicker”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 27th June 2018 Participants in one of instructor Alex Kiermayer’s recent Unarmed Bartitsu seminars practice the chasse median (mid-level side kick). The chasse median is also one of the few kicks represented in the … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu with Alex Kiermayer in Igensdorf, Germany
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 29th June 2018 Bartitsu with Alex Kiermayer Alexander Kiermayer is probably one of the most prominent instructors of the historical fencing scene. He has a broad background in various martial arts and … Continue reading →
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“A Secret Style of Boxing” (The Sportsman, 12 December 1904)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 16th July 2018 There’s a good deal to unpack in this advertisement for an assault-at-arms display organised by former Bartitsu Club instructor Pierre Vigny, including one particularly intriguing item: ST. JAMES’S HALL, … Continue reading →
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“Self Defence with Sherlock Holmes” at the Royal Armouries Museum (Leeds, UK)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 17th July 2018 The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, UK will be offering hands-on Bartitsu classes for children as part of an upcoming series of workshops in various historical martial arts. The classes will … Continue reading →
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Bartitsu Stick Fighting in Bavaria, Germany
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 9th August 2018 Some highly skilled Vigny-style cane play in this unarmoured demonstration bout by Bartitsu instructor Alex Kiermayer (suspenders and flat cap) and his colleague-at-arms Christoph Reinberger. Kiermayer and Reinberger have … Continue reading →
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Bayonet Thrust
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 30th August 2018 Members of the Aisle O’Var Backswording Club experiment with the “bayonette thrust” of Bartitsu cane fighting during a recent seminar. As described by E.W. Barton-Wright in Self-Defence with a Walking Stick (1901): It … Continue reading →
Bartitsu Quiz
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd September 2018 Test your general Bartitsu knowledge with these ten questions (answers given below): 1: In his lecture for the Japan Society of London, E.W. Barton-Wright defined Bartitsu as A) “the … Continue reading →
The Tactics of Bartitsu (Kick)Boxing
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 18th November 2016 E.W. Barton-Wright was fulsome in his praise of boxing, which was virtually synonymous with the idea of “self defence” in London at the turn of the 20th century. In introducing … Continue reading →
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“Let’s See Him!” (1901)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 27th December 2018 Even by September of 1901, with the Bartitsu Club in Shaftesbury Avenue well-established and Bartitsu itself the subject of much media attention, E.W. Barton-Wright suffered ongoing frustrations in persuading European wrestlers … Continue reading →
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