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Category Archives: Jiujitsu
Yukio Tani in 1920
Former Bartitsu Club instructor Yuki Tani is shown executing a collar choke against wrestler Jack Madden in this photo from the Sunday Pictorial of January 4, 1920. Tani won the contest in a time of 14 minutes and 4 seconds.
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W. Bruce Sutherland Teaches Jiujitsu in WW1-era Edinburgh
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 3rd January 2017 Along with Percy Longhurst and William and Edith Garrud, W. Bruce Sutherland was one of the most prominent members of the “second generation” of British self-defence experts. A Scotsman, … Continue reading
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Yukio Tani at the Royal Albert Hall (1904)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th January 2019 This sketch series by Percy F.S. Spence records moments from former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani’s matches at the Royal Albert Hall on July 2, 1904. The sketches were originally published … Continue reading
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Mitsuyo Maeda in England (1907-08)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 17th October 2017 Of the select group of Japanese judoka and jiujitsuka who pioneered their martial arts in the West at the turn of the 20th century, Mitsuyo Maeda is almost certainly the most … Continue reading
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A “New Art of Self Defence” in Ballarat, Australia (1902-09)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 12th May 2017 Aside from the curious demonstrations of “baritzu” by Australian soldiers circa 1906, E.W. Barton-Wright’s martial art may have inspired at least one other Aussie enthusiast during the early 20th century – although the … Continue reading
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“Wrestling or Ju-jitsu?” (E. B. Osborn, T.P.’s Weekly, 1914)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 24th August 2011 WRESTLING OR JU-JITSU? On the whole, catch-as-catch-can wrestling is not a sport to be recommended to amateur athletes. It is true that a knowledge of the chief holds and … Continue reading
“A Jujitsuous Hint” (Punch Magazine, 1905)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 18th July 2011
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Jiujitsu: “Not So Much of a Novelty” circa 1900?
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 17th February 2011 I do not recognise a trip, throw or hold in the Japanese method which is not to be found in the Lancashire, Devonshire, Cumberland and Westmoreland, Greco-Roman or Catch-hold … Continue reading
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