Greetings, madames et messieurs, I'm back from London and Paris. Had a wonderful time, saw nothing of Shaftsbury Avenue, unfortunately, but all of everything...
Hi Will Glad you're back safely! There's been a lot of material posted over on the TPI message board about Blackjack's etc. If you do a search of the "groups"...
Yes, James, everything. Thank you for the tip. -Will P.S. Stopped in to see Mr Holmes, and had an audience with the Queen. Not that new one. I mean Victoria,...
I hadn't thought about the truncheon. They might be a little over long. Most life preservers seemed to be about a foot long, max, while truncheons were 1 1/2...
14 3/4" according to your website, very close to the length of a life-preserver. I bow to your and Tony's superior knowledge. I was thinking just now what a...
... Up until the late 80s/early 90s, when extendable batons were issued, UK WPCs were issued with a 2/3rds size truncheon as it was thought- -to be more...
Hi All. sorry I haven't posted in such a long time. Will, I have a special interest in life-preservers, coshes, and blackjacks. At one time, these weapons were...
Elaborate away ;) James UK ... From: Bartitsu_Forum@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Bartitsu_Forum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of uatogi Sent: 04 June 2006 23:44 To:...
Life preservers (not called blackjacks in Australia) have lots of interesting variations. The "classic" pattern usually consisted of a turk's head knot braided...
I once saw a "priest" club in a trout fishing bout on NZ's Lake Taupo - that was one charismatic lump of wood ... Will, speaking of your next novel, when is...
Something I wrote a while back on coshes :) phil The Cosh No-one quite knows the entire histaory of the Cosh or even where the name originated. What is almost...
The Limehouse Text comes out in the states on the 4th of July. My fourth is already written, but the Bartitsu Club may appear in a future novel. For sure I...
... If you have any source material for reference, construction, and/or use of the Monkey's Fist the guys over at Historical Maritime Combat Asstn. would...
Thanks Phil for this. Another modern field expedient version that I have heard of is a plastic Coke bottle (with the classic shape, of course) filled with...
The WPC's one is really hard to get hold of so a DIY is probably your best option.....especially as eBay now take truncheon's off as offensive weapons (but...
If you Google it there's some basic info on knot sites, that's where I found it some years back......even tried to make one but seeing as I'm the Anti-Christ...
All the infomation you ned to make a turk's head,monkey's paw and other leather tools/weapons can be found in Ron Edward's excellent book "How to make whips" ...
Towards the Volume 2 project and inspired by the boxing vs. JJ debates, I've been researching actual contests of this type in the early 1900s. I can't find...
Have you looked in Hewitt's book "Catch Wrestling"? I know that has a chapter on Wrestling v. Ju Jutsu so maybe some mention of Boxing v. Ju Jutsu!? James UK...
