Category Archives: Vigny stick fighting

Captain Hutton Demonstrates Pierre Vigny’s Walking Stick Defence (London Daily Telegraph, Nov. 20, 1901)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 30th December 2016 Captain Alfred Hutton was a member of the Bartitsu Club committee and also taught fencing at the Club.  E.W. Barton-Wright encouraged his instructors to learn from each other and Hutton … Continue reading →

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Pierre Vigny’s London Self-Defence Exhibitions (June-July 1899)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Tuesday, 31st January 2017 Here follow two further reviews of the series of self-defence exhibitions organised by Bartitsu founder E.W. Barton-Wright during mid-1899, to benefit Pierre Vigny, who had then recently arrived in London. Vigny … Continue reading →

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Defence a la Walking Stick (The Tatler, December 4 1901)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 26th February 2017 The president of the Bartitsu Club (that most interesting school of self-defence in all its forms, which is located in Shaftesbury Avenue) has taken up the cudgels in favour … Continue reading →

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“The Art of Self Defense with a Walking Stick” (1900)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 27th February 2017 From the New Orleans Times-Democrat of Sunday, December 30, 1900: “Baritsu”, as the comparatively new form of self-defense is called, would appear, says the London Free Lance, to be … Continue reading →

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Bartitsu Stick Sparring with Experimental “Gentlemen’s Canes”

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 24th April 2017 Some dynamic Bartitsu-style sparring from the Szkola Fechtunku Aramis classical fencing school in Poland. The sparring canes are made according to the school’s own design, shown in more detail below:

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Vigny-Style Sparring in Santiago, Chile

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 6th May 2017 Walking-stick sparring in the Bartitsu/Vigny style, as practiced in Santiago, Chile.  Note the tactical shifts between the double-handed, rear and front guards:

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More Vigny Cane Fighting by the Santiago Stickfighters

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 20th May 2017

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Rare Mid-20th Century Film of Vigny/Lang stickfighting

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 23rd June 2017 It’s well-known that the method of walking stick defence taught at the Bartitsu Club circa 1900 was devised by Pierre Vigny. Vigny himself instructed Bartitsu students in his system, … Continue reading →

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Captain Laing’s “1st Practice” of Bartitsu Stick Fighting (#1)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Friday, 28th July 2017 In 1902, Bartitsu Club member Captain F.C. Laing wrote an article titled The ‘Bartitsu’ Method of Self-Defence for the Journal of the United Service Institution.Captain Laing’s sequence of set-plays such as “Attacked by a man … Continue reading →

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Captain Laing’s “1st Practice” of Bartitsu Stick Fighting (#2)

Posted on December 22, 2020 by BartitsuSociety

Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 3rd August 2017 The second basic drill from Captain F.C. Laing’s 1902 article The “Bartitsu” Method of Self-Defence, illustrated with photographs adapted from E.W. Barton-Wright’s Self-Defence with a Walking Stick (1901). Click here for the first drill … Continue reading →

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