Friday, March 23, 2012

Bartitsu

Just viewed the new movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Highly recommended. Holmes' character, nicely portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. 

Holmes is a practitioner of Bartitsu, a system of Japanese wrestling."

Bartitsu was developed in 1898 by E.W. Barton-Wright, a British judoka who combined elements of grappling, la canne (stick fighting suitable for a walking cane or an umbrella), fisticuffs, and any other nasty method of street fighting he picked up during his long travels abroad working as a civil engineer for railway and mining companies. Barton-Wright spent three years in Japan studying jiu-jitsu and then judo under Jigoro Kano.

1 comment:

  1. This is vingy not bartisu which is boxing and ju jitsu vingy is walking stick self defence

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