Safety First: What’s Bartitsu’s Priority?
It’s London, 1900. Midnight. You’re walking home from a post-theatre gin with your wife. A little merry but otherwise well. You’ve been unable to get a carriage home, so you take the short walk through the park to get home. It’s late, but a summer’s eve and warm...
Bartitsu Lab’s Tommy Moore Interviews Duncan McNulty
In this article, we are excited to share an interview with the Bartitsu Lab's founder Tommy Moore and Duncan McNulty. Duncan is the founder of the Bartitsu and Agtagonistics forum and well known in the community for his knowledge of weapons systems within the art. In...
Bartitsu Lab’s Tommy Moore Interviews James Marwood
In this article, we are excited to share an interview with the Bartitsu Lab's founder Tommy Moore and James Marwood. James is renowned in the Bartitsu community as one of the early founding members of the Bartitsu revival movement. In this interview, Tommy and James...
Online Bartitsu Streams
In these confusing times, the wonderful people at the Bartitsu & Antagonistics Forum have begun to host weekly Bartitsu live streams. The first session aired tonight (24th March 2020) was presented by Duncan, the lead instructor, demonstrating a warm-up exercise...
The Sherlock Holmes School of Self-Defence: The Manly Art of Bartitsu
The Sherlock Holmes School of Self Defence elaborates the martial art known as Bartitsu it a small yet detailed guide full of images. The team behind the book have taken quotes from both Barton-Wright and the stories of Sherlock Holmes. The book is presented in a...
Stances in Bartitsu – Canonical
Unarmed Stances The Ready Stance (Hachiji-Dachi) The ready stance in Bartitsu takes itself from classical Japanese combat forms. To get into position your feet should be shoulder-width apart with your toes pointing outward at 45 degrees. Your knees should be slightly...
Savate in Bartitsu – Kicks, Strikes and Distance
An introduction to the art of Savate La Boxe Francaise, commonly know as Savate is a French martial art which employs the use of boxing and kicking techniques. Historians can point to several points in time when Savate was formed, and like most things in history, it...
The Core Tactics of Bartitsu, What Are They?
The art of Bartitsu is one which the practitioner utilises both their mental and physical capabilities.The system, in Barton-Wright's own words, has been carefully and scientifically planned. It is with this in mind that the practitioner must employ surprise,...
Yoga in Bartitsu – The Victorian Martial Art
To the unacquainted, some may think Yoga and martial arts are philosophies of opposites, chalk and cheese to say. But if we dive deeper, both Yoga and martial arts contain some core concepts which are common throughout. Each allows the practitioner to generate a...
Bartitsu: Historical Self-Defence with a Walking Stick Series
So you're wanting to learn Bartitsu but can't find a club near you? Well, Alex Kiermayer has created an excellent instructional video series, originally produced in German, it is now available in English to stream and purchase as a DVD. Below shows a small snippet of...
