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Category Archives: Jiujitsu
The Japanese School of Ju-jitsu in Oxford Street (1904-08)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 11th July 2017 After the closure of the Bartitsu School of Arms in mid-1902, the various specialist instructors went their separate ways. Wrestling and physical culture tutor Armand Cherpillod returned to Switzerland, … Continue reading
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How “Re-Nie’s” Jiujitsu Won Against Dubois’ Savate (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 24th July 2017 In the wake of his stunning six-second victory against savateur Georges Dubois in their 1905 style-vs-style challenge fight, jiujitsuka Ernest Regnier (a.k.a. “Re-Nie”) posed for the following series of technical photographs. … Continue reading
Suffragette Self-Defence
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th August 2017 In this short scene from the 2015 movie Suffragette, newly militant Maude Watts (Carey Mulligan) receives her first lesson in jiujitsu from Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter). In real history, Edith Garrud served … Continue reading
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“Baritsu (sic) and Bluff” – a Critical Article on Bartitsu from 1901
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 19th August 2017 The anonymous author of this article from the Pall Mall Gazette of 27 August, 1901 turns a sharply critical eye to E.W. Barton-Wright’s promotion of Bartitsu. Noting for the sake … Continue reading
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“A Jiu-Jitsu Battle Royale in Paris”: Tani vs. Higashi (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 13th September 2017 The following two accounts offer a fairly complete record of the controversial 29 November, 1905 jiujitsu match between former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani and Tsutsumi Hōzan-ryū stylist Katsukuma … Continue reading
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“The Fall Guy”: S.K. Eida
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 29th October 2017 The first generation of Japanese jiujitsuka to arrive in London included Kaneo Tani, Seizo Yamamoto and Yukio Tani, all of whom had been invited to the England by Bartitsu … Continue reading
“Ju-Jitsu Corps”: A Novel Venture Which Has The Official Sanction (1914)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 19th November 2017 This little-known initiative was widely publicised during December of 1914 and January of 1915: A new corps has just been formed with the unusual title of the “Ju-Jitsu Corps.” … Continue reading
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“Ju-Jitsu For The Police: Its Possibilities”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 17th December 2017 Cartoonist Ralph Cleaver imagines the ways in which jiujitsu might transform the policeman’s lot, and that of wider Edwardian society, in this series of cartoons for The Sketch.
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