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Category Archives: Jiujitsu
Unarmed Bartitsu With Alex Kiermayer
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 18th December 2017 A gallery of images from a recent unarmed Bartitsu seminar with instructor Alex Kiermayer for the inaugural Noble Science event in Ronneburg, Germany. This event brought together instructors in various … Continue reading
The Mystery of the “Japanised Englishman”
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 13th August 2010 Pieter M.C. Toepoel was, in a sense, the E.W. Barton-Wright of the Netherlands. A boxing and physical culture teacher and something of a free-thinker, attracted to novelties, Toepoel was … Continue reading
The Mysteries of the Embok Kwai (1900-1902)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 4th March 2017 “… he was initiated into the Order of the Embok Kwai, the sole purpose of which is to teach, perpetuate and protect the secrets of jiu-jitsu.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1st … Continue reading
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The Case of the Imaginary Sensei
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 29th May 2010 Eager would-be students of jiujitsu in early Edwardian England had limited options to learn the mysterious Japanese art of self defence. During the period 1899-1902 they might have trained … Continue reading
Suffragettes and Jiu-Jitsu (1910)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 9th September 2011 From the Wanganui Chronicle, 9 August 1910, Page 5. No longer is the annoying male interjector to disturb the tranquility of the peaceful Suffragette at her meetings (says the London … Continue reading
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“I am a Woman, but no Weakling” – Judith Lee, Lady Detective
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 29th November 2011 He stopped – there was silence. The bell rang again. I was just about to suggest again that he should go and see who was at the outer door … Continue reading
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Yukio Tani by George Cooke (1904)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 18th January 2012 Former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani, as caricatured by the artist George Cooke. Cooke compiled hundreds of renderings of Edwardian-era music hall stars during his affiliation with the Grand … Continue reading
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Eugen Sandow on “Boxing vs. Ju-jitsu” (Daily News, 1907)
Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 4th April 2012 Despite E. W. Barton-Wright’s advocacy of a rational melding of various “antagonistics” for purposes of self defence (a theme that was later championed by others including his former collaborator … Continue reading