Category Archives: Instruction

Bartitsu at Home: Tommy Joe Moore Teaches Pugilism and Atemi-Waza

Posted on December 11, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
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Bartitsu at Home: Tommy Joe Moore Teaches Savate Hand Strikes

Posted on December 11, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
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Tommy Joe Moore Teaches the 52 Hand Blocks

Posted on June 13, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Editorial note: several years ago I had the privilege of traveling with my adult son and my teenage nephew to a boxing gym in the Bronx, NYC and meeting with Daniel Marks, who had, over the previous decade, done much … Continue reading →

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Yukio Tani’s Kaeshi-No-Kata

Posted on February 8, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 15th June 2010 An interpretation of the kaeshi-no-kata (forms of countering) devised by former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani during his time as an instructor at the London Budokwai.

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“Schools Where Men are Taught to Defend Themselves Against the Attacks of Street Rowdies” (New York Tribune, August 30, 1903)

Posted on February 8, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 26th May 2010 ART OF STICK DEFENCE. A Ready Means of Warding Off Felonious Assaults. In the crowded city as well as at the lonely crossroads a man never knows when he … Continue reading →

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E.W. Barton-Wright’s “overcoat trick”

Posted on February 8, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th April 2010 In the March edition of Pearson’s Magazine, 1899, Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright demonstrated a curious self defence technique making use of an overcoat as a defensive weapon. The provenance of … Continue reading →

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Another “new” canonical Bartitsu technique

Posted on February 8, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 25th April 2010 From Percy Longhurst’s “JiuJitsu and Other Methods of Self Defence”, 1906 (pp 77-78): A different defence to a similar attack – one which considerably surprised me when I was … Continue reading →

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