October 22nd, 2008
Courtesy of Hervé Dautry and James Farthing of the Yahoo Defence Dans La Rue group the folowing text has become availbale. It is a chapter from Joseph Renaud’s “La Defence Dans La Rue” published in 1912. Particularly interesting are the mentions of unarmed combat being the most important skill, his advice on training and his [...]
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August 11th, 2008
Announcing the publication of the Bartitsu Compendium, Volume II: Antagonistics! In the year 1899, E.W. Barton-Wright devised the martial art of Bartitsu as a process of cross-training between jujitsu, boxing, savate and walking-stick fighting, designed to beat the fearsome street gangsters of Edwardian London at their own game. The second volume of the Bartitsu Compendium [...]
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