Girl beats off muggers with marching band baton 1 day ago QUARTZ HILL, Calif. (AP) — Don't mess with a marching band girl, especially one armed with a baton....
I own a professional grade baton like a cheerleader would use. Skinny, but I believe the shaft is solid steel to make up for that. Much better than what I...
Oh, so it was like the drum major's type? Those things look like clubs with a metal ball on one end, but I've never seen one up close. ... Oh, so it was like...
From an article in the "Mirror of Life" newspaper, Wednesday Sept. 4, 1901: "There is a good deal of misconception as to Bartitsu, or 'real self defence'. It...
"mad up of 'fouls'"? What are they talking about here? One must give right of way and do a full parry before the reposte or it simply isn't cricket?...
There was a good deal of confusion and controversy (some of which may have been newspaper hype) regarding the jiujitsu aspect of Bartitsu. Wrestlers in the...
... IIRC 'la Savate' refers to the street oriented style, as opposed to the more refined developments of Casseux and Lecour. Craig G or James Farthing would...
Hi Anton, my best guess is that this is another reference to Barton-Wright's (and, presumably, Pierre Vigny's) adaptation of savate for self defence. B-W once...
This seems to me to be the way that Ray & Anna were approaching Bartitsu with what had been passed onto them, in the conversations that were on this list last...
Hi Rod, IMO, this conceptual approach, based on biomechanical and strategic principles, is the beginning of real learning. It's what saves a given fighting...
Hi Tony, I agree. Unfortunately to me a lot of styles put obstacles in the form of set techniques as opposed to teaching the priciples of movement /action...
Hi All, Although la Canne Vigny was only a component of Bartitsu, I believe Vigny is on record as having said that 12 lessons were needed to learn his system....
Hi Craig, that's an excellent question. We know frustratingly little about how Bartitsu, per se, was actually studied. Barton-Wright apparently insisted that...
Howdy Tony! I put in the first review for Cunningham and added some tags to the Bartitsu Compendiums. I'll let somebody else write the first reviews for the...
New photo in the 'eBay' album.... "Mrs. Garrud demonstrating jujitsu on a pretend Policeman during a training session for the W.S.P.U. 'Bodyguard' in early...
Thanks Tony and James That makes sense. I'm not sure what type of publication Mirror of Life newspaper was but I wonder if the author expected its readers to...
Hi Anton, I'd hazard a guess that the average English newspaper reader's conception of savate would have been pretty hazy. I think that B-W was just trying to...
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