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Category Archives: Jiujitsu
“Miyake, the Champion of Japan: an Interesting Interview” (1907)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 17th December 2017 This interview from the Midland Daily Telegraph of August 1, 1907 offers some further details on the life and career of Taro Miyake. A prominent member of the “second generation” … Continue reading
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“Professor Re-nie” Instructs the Parisian Police (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 24th December 2017 These photos from The Bystander of November 15th, 1905 portray a self-defence class taught by Ernest Regnier, a.k.a. “Re-Nie”, for senior members of the Parisian police force. Regnier had been a … Continue reading
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Sadakazu Uyenishi Saves a Drowning Man (?) in Belfast (1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 10th January 2019 After the Bartitsu Club closed in mid-1902, most of the instructors continued independent careers as instructors and combat sport athletes. Although Sadakazu Uyenishi was better-known as an instructor than as a … Continue reading
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The Martial Athletics of Diana Watts
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 1st May 2010 Even before Edith Garrud began teaching jiujitsu classes for the women and children of London, Emily Diana Watts was pioneering the way for female martial arts instructors in the Western world. … 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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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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