Category Archives: Sherlock Holmes

“How I taught Holmes baritsu …”

Posted on December 25, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 23rd November 2013 The following essay is a translation, by the author of the Hmm Yes Perfect blog, of a memoir by Russian fight choreographer Nikolay Vaschilin. Mr. Vaschilin staged the climactic Holmes/Moriarty battle … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Lecture for the Criterion Bar Association

Posted on December 25, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 5th November 2013 On the evening of Saturday, Nov. 2nd, Bartitsu instructor Tony Wolf (right, above) delivered an after-dinner lecture on the history and revival of Bartitsu for the Criterion Bar Association, a coeducational scion … Continue reading →

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BBC’s “Sherlock” (Finally!) Offers a Shout-Out to “Baritsu” …

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 2nd January 2014 … if only as the second of thirteen possible life-saving, death-faking scenarios worked out in painstaking detail prior to Sherlock’s confrontation with Moriarty atop the St. Bart’s Hospital roof. … Continue reading →

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How the Original Sherlock Holmes Survived the Reichenbach Fall

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 1st January 2014 Fans around the world are eagerly awaiting Episode 1 of the third season of Sherlock, in which the mystery of how the consulting detective faked his own death will be … Continue reading →

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Stick Men

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 29th January 2014 A tip of the straw boater hat to Threadless.com user mmviolet for her clever melding of classic Bartitsu stick fighting images with the stick figure cypher motif from Sir … Continue reading →

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Sherlockian Self-Defence with a Walking Stick (1988)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 31st March 2014 Members of the Sherlock Holmes Society posing as the characters Reginald Musgrave and Baron Gruner engage in a spot of walking-stick combat during the Society’s annual pilgrimage to the Reichenbach Falls.

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Bartitsu at the Museum of London

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 25th November 2014 Instructor James Garvey demonstrates a canonical Bartitsu takedown as part of his November 21 presentation for the Museum of London’s exhibition, Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die.

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The Moriarty Variations at “Sherlock Seattle”

Posted on December 23, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 27th January 2016 What if, during their fatal combat at the brink of the Reichenbach Falls, both Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty had been trained in Bartitsu and armed with walking sticks? … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Workshop at Sherlocon 2017 (Rome, Italy)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 31st January 2017 Moments from the Bartitsu seminar at the recent Sherlocon 2017 Sherlock Holmes fandom event, which took place at the Nuovo Teatro Orione in Rome, Italy.  Aimed at interested novices, the workshop … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Returns to the Royal Armouries (Leeds)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 26th April 2017 Sherlock, Stock and Barrel is a Sherlock Holmes-themed event taking place at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds, England between April 29-May 1. Notably, the event marks the return of Bartitsu … Continue reading →

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