No problems, this is a very sincere group working on a worth while project. While i am very busy with my own projects i would be willing to assist when i can...
Dear gentlemen, We need some articles for our files from various hard-to-get sources, that were mentioned in Graham Noble's article on Barton-Wright. If anyone...
Will I've got access to the British Library and a few friends so will see what I can do. Have you emailed Mr Noble to ask him if he would send you a copy of...
As an adjunct, FAI is going to be online soon and they're going to sell their old articles at £1-£3 each I think. Expensive if you ask me but if it's only...
That was my next step, James. I've heard he is either reclusive or has no e-mail, but I could be wrong. -Will James <jimmy_fatwing@...> wrote: Will ...
I probably have this one, I'll check today. Jason The second is an interview with BW by Gunji Koizumi in the Budokwai quarterly, Judo, for July 1950....
Dear Gents, I think in theory that Bartitsu can be built up like Legos: Start with the forty techniques left us. Add the jiu-jitsu techniques left us by his...
Richard Bowen, President of the Kano Society and VP of the Budokwai, passed away last month. He was a hoplologist interested in early British Judo, and he...
Hi Will, ... Yes, bearing in mind that many of these are intermediate or advanced techniques in themselves. ... Problematic in that many of these are sport...
True, all too true. But 40 techniques out of 300 (according to Noble) is almost none at all. Surely we can estimate some of these techniques. Many styles of...
Hi Will, ... If we're talking about classical Bartitsu as being restricted to those sequences and individual moves that we know B-W taught, then that shouldn't...
I'm with you about the combat. If I want sport, I'll try baseball. My own style of Jiu-jitsu, Shihan ryu, is based on Tenjin Shinyo and Kito, like Judo, but...
1] first 40 methods then...........2] take something like this 1] left lead jab to face 2] inside edge of boot kick with rear leg to his shin 3] let's say he...
Hi Ralph, that sounds like a good sequence, but what would you recommend as sources/training just to be able to perform the 40 canonical techniques correctly? ...
tony, most japanese/american jiu jitsu course have methods like those, training in one would be enough to get bw's ideas in the first 40, it is only body ...
Congrats, gents. You earned it. -Will ralph <ggrasso06@...> wrote: gents, jason couch and i are mentioned as valuables sources in the new book " pioneers...
I just put a new article on my site that some of you may be interested in, it goes with the picture I put in the files section last month. Check the "updates"...
... Hi Ralph, yes, but I was wondering which particular skills you thought would be of most value as supplementary or pre-training before learning the 40. If...
tony, they would have to start off with the basics of jiu jitsu and saber fencing in my opinion, the 3-4 savate kicks needed can be taught [ for example by a...
Thought I might chime in. We have rejuvenated one of the older Japanese styles over the past several years  Heike-Ryu Jiu Jitsu. It is the family style of...
Hi All, I live a 15 minute train ride away from Bath and am planning on going down to view the collection at some point (Hopefully with another of the list ...
Wasn't that an old DDLR / Apache trick with the cloak.....and I thought you were all Combatives mate ;) James UK ... From: phil matthews (Cloaking device...
Hi Ralph, I agree that we'd need to look closer at an Aikijiujitsu basis than Kano-ryu, at least to develop a foundation for learning the 40. I guess what I'm...
You can search the uni's online library catalogue....all the books passed over by Bowen have "BOW" I think in the catalogue number. James UK ... From: will...
Hello Jim, congratulations ofn the Heike-ryu rejuvenation, it must have been a very satisfying project. Similarly, I think that to restore the 40 Bartitsu...
