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Bartitsu

I’m teaching in Wales…

January 1st, 2010

Just a quick update as details of an event I’m teaching have just been released. I’ll post some more information when I have it, but for now here’s the press release: To celebrate the arrival of the Rawlings range training swords and the opening of the Knight Shop’s WMA academy we are holding Two Days [...]

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Doing something stupid?

November 9th, 2008

I have Google alerts set up for a wide range of subjects, but one of the main is Bartitsu. This wonderful Edwardian Martial Art is passion of mine, and I look after another blog on it, on behalf of the Bartitsu Society. Via this alert I today came across this article focusing, as many do, [...]

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A Martial Demonstration

October 1st, 2008

Courtesy of Tony Wolf, from “Guy’s Hospital Gazette: A Students Journal of Hospital News, Medicine and Surgery”, Published by Guy’s Hospital, 1900: SUDDENLY conceived, hurriedly organized, there was every excuse if the Assault-at-Arms in the Gymnasium on the 16th inst. had been a failure. When, therefore, we can describe it as a complete success, there [...]

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Bartitsu Compendium Vol II

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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Upcoming Events

May 26th, 2008

I’ve been invited to teach at a few events this summer, two in the UK and one in Sweden. I’ll be doing a few different things at each one so hopefully anyone who comes to more than one won’t get bored. Fightcamp (11-13th July) – I’ll be doing classes in Cunningham’s Walking Stick Method, Bartitsu [...]

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