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Category Archives: Jiujitsu
“If a Bold Bad Man Attacks You, Jiu-Jitsu Him!”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 6th August 2015 A selection of classic jiujitsu “tricks” as women’s self-defence in this photo-feature from the Chicago Tribune of June 20, 1915.
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Bartitsu Club Instructor Yukio Tani in Action?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 31st December 2012 This newsreel clip was shot at a gala day at London’s Kensington Palace Field in the year 1928. The first half features a boxing exhibition by Alf Mancini, who was … Continue reading
“It was jiu-jitsu!” (1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd January 2012 I drew a deep breath as I mastered the contents of this momentous document. Then, just as I was about to replace it in the ingenious receptacle contrived for … Continue reading
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“Professor Kano and His Judo School” (from “A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan”, 1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 14th March 2019 Bartitsu founder Edward Barton-Wright spent three years, between roughly 1895-98, living in Kobe, Japan, where he worked as an antimony smelting specialist for E.H. Hunter and Company. By his … Continue reading
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“Raku, the Japanese Wrestler” (1907)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 8th March 2019 Sadakazu Uyenishi was the last of four Japanese jujitsu instructors to be employed at the Bartitsu Club. During 1901, Uyenishi frequently partnered Yukio Tani in Club demonstrations, alternated with Tani in … Continue reading
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“Jiu Jitsu For Mental Nurses” (1911)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 6th November 2017 A historical curiosity from the Aberdeen Press and Journal of 4 January, 1911, detailing the self-defence training of psychiatric nurses via the game of “Indian wrestling” and some basic jiujitsu techniques. Interestingly, … Continue reading
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The Athletic Jagendorfer (1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 2nd October 2017 According to a report in the Birmingham Daily Gazette of 12 October, 1905, the celebrated wrestler, strongman and club-swinging champion Georg Jagendorfer would shortly begin instructing the Viennese police in the gentle … Continue reading
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“The Claims of Ju-Jitsu” (The Sportsman, 4th May 1906)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd September 2017 The following letter to the editor of The Sportsman was written during the ongoing “jujitsu vs. boxing” controversy of 1906-7. The “boxing vs. jujitsu” debate was typically argued from a theoretical … Continue reading
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