Category Archives: Savate

Bartitsu Featured on Japanese TV

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 5th September 2018 This six-minute Bartitsu featurette recently screened on the Japanese television show Sekai Kurabete Mitara  (“See the World in Comparison”).  Playing to the pop-culture notion of the “gentlemanly martial art” via the Sherlock … Continue reading →

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Antagonistics at THEMA 2016

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd September 2018 A video memoir of fisticuffs/savate, French wrestling, self-defence and Bartitsu classes at the December, 2016 Toulouse Historical Martial Arts gathering:

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Bartitsu Demonstration at the Polish Army Museum

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 30th September 2018 Members of the Club L’Extreme Est of Warsaw, Poland exhibited Bartitsu at the Polish War Museum on Saturday, September 23.  The demonstration was based on the martial arts journey of Edward Barton-Wright … Continue reading →

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A Photo Gallery from Day 1 of BartitsuCon 2018

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd November 2018

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A Photo Gallery from Day 2 of BartitsuCon 2018

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 30th November 2018

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The Tactics of Bartitsu (Kick)Boxing

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 18th November 2016 E.W. Barton-Wright was fulsome in his praise of boxing, which was virtually synonymous with the idea of “self defence” in London at the turn of the 20th century. In introducing … Continue reading →

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Canne Vigny and Defense dans la Rue Seminar in Australia

Posted on December 18, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 31st January 2019 Instructor and pioneering Vigny cane revivalist Craig Gemeiner will be offering a seminar in Vigny cane fighting and defense dans la rue (early 20th century French street self-defence) on … Continue reading →

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La Savate vs. Boxing in London (The Sportsman, 26 March, 1904)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 7th October 2017 Given the traditional rivalries between France and England, it’s unsurprising that savate vs. boxing contests around the turn of the 20th century should have attracted considerable interest and generated … Continue reading →

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“Victory of the Foreigner”: Pierre Vigny vs. Professor Perkins (May, 1899)

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 2nd September 2017 This newly-discovered article from the Sporting Life of 24 May, 1899 records one of Pierre Vigny’s first public forays into the London antagonistics scene.   Professor Perkins (England) vs. Professor Vigny (Switzerland) … Continue reading →

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Who Was the Bartitsu Club’s Mysterious “Instructor Hubert”?

Posted on December 16, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 1st September 2017 The roster of instructors at E.W. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu School of Arms included Pierre Vigny (savate and walking stick defence), Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi (jiujitsu), Armand Cherpillod (wrestling and … Continue reading →

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