Category Archives: Jiujitsu

Combining Vigny Cane and Jiujitsu in Canonical Bartitsu

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 8th March 2016 If I have been fortunate enough to interest the readers of this Journal in one of the many forms of “Bartitsu,” I shall hope to describe later in another article a further … Continue reading

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“Now Then, Move On There!” (1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 9th February 2018 This cartoon from the Penny Illustrated Paper of March 4, 1905 proposes a novel method for police constables to “move on” ne’er-do-wells in the streets of London.  The technique is a … Continue reading

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“I’m Teaching the Police to Fight” (1911)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 10th February 2018 The following article describing a Bartitsu-like method of self-defence was first published in Pearson’s Weekly of January 26, 1911. The author’s name is given as Baron Albrecht von Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff, … Continue reading

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“Seize Him by the Throat”

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th February 2018 Although we don’t have a full catalogue of the atemi (striking and nerve pressure techniques) practiced at the Bartitsu Club circa 1901, analysis of the writings of E.W. Barton-Wright … Continue reading

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“Self Defence for Ladies and Gentlemen” Seminar in Bavaria, Germany

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 3rd March 2018 Bartitsu instructor Alex Kiermayer (above) and pugilist Christoph Reinberger are teaming up for a seminar in Victorian and Edwardian antagonistics. The two-day event will cover fisticuffs, jiujitsu, Bartitsu stick … Continue reading

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The Bamboo Pole Trick

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 12th March 2018 This photo published in the Italian journal La Stampa Sportiva (November, 1903) shows former Bartitsu Club instructor Sadakazu Uyenishi wheeling out an old favourite.  The “bamboo pole trick” had been a … Continue reading

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“The Art of Self Defence” (1909)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 18th March 2018 The following article by N. Tegan Lewis was originally published in the Women’s Freedom League newspaper of April 22, 1909, following the jiujitsu self-defence displays by Edith Garrud at … Continue reading

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“A Ju-jitsu Festival in Kyoto, Japan” (1909)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 27th March 2018 Sketch artist Tom Brown recorded his impressions of a “ju-jitsu festival” taking place in Kyoto for the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of November 13, 1909.  He noted that he admired … Continue reading

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Jujitsu at Glen Parva Barracks (1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 14th April 2018 Although he had been brought to London to partner Yukio Tani in teaching and demonstrating Japanese unarmed combat via the Bartitsu Club, Sadakazu “Raku” Uyenishi went his own way … Continue reading

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Sergeant George Wheeldon’s Police Self-Defence (circa 1905)

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 17th April 2018 The City of London police history blog Plodd in the Square Mile offers this short but informative article on Sergeant George Wheeldon, who essentially pioneered the systematic practice of unarmed self-defence within … Continue reading

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