In this short video, Bartitsu Lab founder Tommy Joe Moore introduces his approach to reviving E.W. Barton-Wright’s “New Art of Self Defence”.
We have long argued in favour of pressure-testing conclusions via hard sparring and endorse this approach as the best way forward for the Bartitsu revival as a whole. It’s well worth noting that the same, pragmatic methodology can and should be applied from the HEMA-oriented perspective of recreating the original art as closely as possible on its own terms.