Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Just wanted you to know that we currently have 365 members. That means if each of you sent us one email a year we'd be busy every...
... has been shown to be badly flawed in many of his interpretations of historical fencing. Hi Allen, IMO their major impact was the fact that they were...
First of a series of notes on Richard Bowen's B-W/Tani document, taking advantage of our findings over the past six years and of the Internet, which was not...
"As far as it can be presently ascertained Barton-Wright left Japan sometime between January 1897 and October 1898. No trace has been found of him in the...
tony, is there any evidence of change in method or technique? all this is good info but more of an historical nature [not that i do not like this type of ...
Hi Ralph, IMO the significant technical changes happened as B-W, Vigny, Tani, Uyenishi and Cherpillod started to cross-train, i.e. 1900-1901. B-W appears to...
(SNIP extensive quotations and paraphrasing from the Japan Society lecture, reproduced in the BCI)"In one demonstration Yamamoto had his hands tied and, in a...
tony, the entire shame of the BARTITSU saga is that the lineage is broken so badly that anything outside of pearsons is guesswork.i was hoping [beyond hope i...
tony, we sort of been over this already, i am talking about the new paperwork , anything new on method?---if not, it is basically all address and timeline[of...
Ok I'm going by content by all of these gentlemen. Yes all of them had the standard victorian colonial mindset going on. Put the filters on and work with whats...
Sweet and Shiny!!!!! Irish Stick Fighting, then Scillian Stiletto, Now possibly Castle and Hutton in a work, only thing that could top that is if ya threw in...
... Hi Ralph, we do have a good deal of canonical (method/technique) sources other than the Pearsons Magazine articles; Captain Laing's "Bartitsu Stick ...
... and Hutton in a work, only thing that could top that is if ya threw in some victorian era quarterstaff and let me know the location of the book signing :) ...
... Just wanted to address this point from another perspective. If we're hoping to find a codified Bartitsu curriculum, in the sense of a set of named...
tony, are we sure that he was not using the japanese gent for a demo[or vica-versa]----i think the wazas play an important part in the bartitsu puzzle because...
agreed, i take it a step further [farther?] , did bartitsu die with wright ? are we dealing with just judo after that? i do not count ddlr or boxing books of...
members, i think president roosevelt with his cross training would have to be considered a bartitsu [neo] exponet based upon anything after pearsons. he did...
tony, i am failing to understand , can you explain to me the technical difference between competition jiu jitsu and sport judo---i read of nothing that tani,...
There is more. According to the book BY THE SWORD there was a coterie of writer/swordsmen studying under Hutton, possibly at the Bartitsu School. They were ...
With the Neo qualifier, I agree. -Will ... From: ralph <ggrasso06@...> Subject: [Bartitsu_Forum] neo-bartitsu To: Bartitsu_Forum@yahoogroups.com Date:...
tony, i have the first and will of course be piocking up the second, i look at them as victorian martial arts history books and as english judo /physical ...