“Wrestler vs. Boxer”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd November 2014

A series of promotional photographs, subjects unknown, dating to the first decade of the 20th century.

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“Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons” Coming in Early 2015

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Saturday, 22nd November 2014
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The graphic novel trilogy Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons, written by Tony Wolf with art by Joao Vieira, will be published by Jet City Comics in early 2015:

London, 1914: with Europe on the brink of war, the leaders of the radical women’s rights movement are fugitives from the law. Their last line of defence is the elite secret society of Amazons; women trained in the martial art of Bartitsu and sworn to protect their leaders from arrest and assault.

The stakes dramatically rise when the Amazons find themselves playing a deadly game of cat-and-mouse against an aristocratic, Utopian cult …

Stay tuned for updates!

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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
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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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Bartitsuesque Action in “Gotham”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 26th November 2014

A notably Bartitsuvian fight scene from the hit TV series Gotham, in which Alfred Pennyworth (Sean Pertwee) demonstrates his credentials as a retired badass.

Readers of a certain age and proclivity may fondly recall the “Venusian aikido” exhibited by Pertwee’s father Jon in his title role in the Doctor Who series during the 1970s.

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Action, Adventure and Intrigue in “Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst’s Amazons”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 11th December 2014
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The Suffrajitsu graphic novel trilogy (coming in early 2015) now has its own official website, Facebook page and Twitter account!

Suffrajitsu.com

Suffrajitsu.com is your one-stop-shop for all matters Amazonian. Designed as something of a sister site for Bartitsu.org, it includes a comprehensive blog featuring a large (and ever-expanding) catalogue of articles on the suffragette Amazons in both history and fiction.

Suffrajitsu on social media

Social media devotees are cordially invited to like/follow/share the new Suffrajitsu Facebook page for discussion, teaser images, instant updates and some big surprises as we move ever closer to the launch date …

An alternative history of action, adventure and intrigue!

Taking place during the year 1914, Suffrajitsu recounts the adventures of Miss Persephone Wright (seen above, debating politics with a London bobby) and her elite team of Amazons; a secret society of women trained in Bartitsu, who protect the leaders of the radical women’s rights movement.

Many of the events of the first story are directly based on real history and most of the characters are fictional versions of real people, including:

* the parasol-wielding woman of mystery known only as Miss Sanderson
* the Austrian wrestler and strongwoman Katie “Sandwina” Brumbach
* Flossie Le Mar, the jujitsu-adventuress from far-off New Zealand …

Suffrajitsu is written by Tony Wolf, illustrated by Joao Vieira and published by Jet City Comics. It is part of the Foreworld Saga, a shared-world alternative history series initiated by authors Neal Stephenson and Mark Teppo.

Stay tuned for more details!

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A Little Impromptu Riverbank Bartitsu …

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 15th December 2014
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Self-Defence with a Bicycle, Italian Style (1905)

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Thursday, 18th December 2014

This sequence of photographs from a 1905 edition of the Italian journal La Stampa Sportiva is clearly based on Marcus Tindal’s amusing and eccentric article Self-Protection on a Cycle (1901), which may in turn have been inspired by this letter published in the London Bicycle Club Gazette in 1901.

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Tony Wolf Bartitsu Seminar Video

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Sunday, 21st December 2014

Highlights from a two-hour introductory Bartitsu seminar taught by instructor Tony Wolf at the CombatCon martial arts conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The theme of this class was to explore E.W. Barton-Wright’s precept of adaptability via a progression of “combat improvisation” exercises, incorporating a selection of canonical jujitsu and Vigny stick fighting set-plays and integrating some basic strikes from boxing and savate.

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The Addams-Dewey Gymnasium

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Wednesday, 24th December 2014

Artist Pablo Helguera’s Addams-Dewey Gymnasium was part of the Art Institute of Chicago’s recent exhibition, titled A Proximity of Consciousness:

The gymnasium invites visitors to engage in turn-of-the-century exercises designed to promote health and foster a connection between the mind and the body. In the piece, Helguera transports the educational philosophies of activist Jane Addams and educational reformer John Dewey into a contemporary art exhibition, inviting participants to reflect on the impact of two of the most influential thinkers on education.

The exhibition featured practical classes in circa 1900 physical culture exercises and also an array of antique exercise paraphernalia, including an exercise bike, rowing machine and a woman’s gymnastics dress borrowed from the Forteza Gymuseum collection.

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The balustrades shown above (with cutout Indian club motifs) were donated to the Forteza gym after the exhibition closed.
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More on the “Dr. Latson Method of Self Defense”

Posted on December 24, 2020 by BartitsuSociety
  • Originally published on the Bartitsu.org site on Monday, 5th January 2015
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Readers may recall our April, 2013 article presenting the “Dr. Latson Method of Self Defense” and the bizarre scandal and mystery that later enveloped the principals of that method.

Now, researcher Maxime Chouinard has tracked down an article featuring most of those photographs, plus one additional image, that appeared in the June 11, 1911 edition of the Denver Post. Visit his blog to read When a Thug Attacks You, and ponder; this anonymous article was published two months after Dr. Latson’s mysterious death.

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