Bartitsu School of Arms 2012 video

Discussion in 'Western Martial Arts' started by Devon, Sep 18, 2012.

  1. Devon

    Devon Valued Member

    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We3BJ3lPdBY"]Bartitsu School of Arms 2012 - a video memoir - YouTube[/ame]

    A "video memoir" of the recent Bartitsu School of Arms conference/seminar, including cross-training drills, sparring matches and highlights from the Antagonisticathlon (Sherlock Holmes-themed martial arts obstacle course).
     
  2. Mitch

    Mitch Lord Mitch of MAP Admin

    I am so down with the name "Antagonisticathlon" :D

    Mitch
     
  3. Polar Bear

    Polar Bear Moved on

    See some of this at the BFHS events in UK. It's good fun.

    The Bear.
     
  4. Seventh

    Seventh Super Sexy Sushi Time

    Looks like a lot of fun!
     
  5. gapjumper

    gapjumper Intentionally left blank

    Does look like fun!

    Would like to ask a question on history...

    Appears that shinden fudo ryu (of some sort) played a major part in the Bartitsu/Defendu schools. I have studied shinden fudo ryu daken and shinden fudo ryu jutaijutsu...is there a connection that you know of?
     
    Last edited: Sep 20, 2012
  6. Kave

    Kave Lunatic

    Apparently E.W. Barton-Wright trained in Shinden Fudo Ryu under Terajima Kuniichiro. A different branch to the Takamatsu/Toda Bujinkan claims.
     
  7. gapjumper

    gapjumper Intentionally left blank

    Is that the SDFR Kenpo line?
     
  8. komuso

    komuso Valued Member

    "Antagonisticathlon"

    That is such a cool band name! Or at least an album title....

    paul
     
  9. Kave

    Kave Lunatic

    Yeah, the art that was taught to Ueno Takashi by Kenwa Mabuni.

    According to http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/the-martial-arts-of-bartitsu/
     
  10. Devon

    Devon Valued Member

    I don't know of any historical connection between Bartitsu and Defendu. If you mean Defendo (Combato, etc. - it gets murky), the style created by Bill Underwood, he said that he'd received his first jujitsu lessons as a young boy from former Bartitsu Club instructor Yukio Tani; however, it's unlikely that Tani was a student of SFR.

    Beyond that, as others have already mentioned, the SFR dojo that Barton-Wright studied at between 1895-8 appears to have taught a different method than that which is currently claimed as part of the Bujinkan lineage.
     
  11. mattt

    mattt Valued Member

    Chick at .13 and later without the mask, has the skills, the rest...

    I was all excited to check out a Bartitsu demo recently, until at the last minute the practioners all pulled out and a few Krav Maga folk tried to fill in, very lame. Would love to see more of the lady at the start, along with other practioners.

    EDIT: Having watched a bit more of the vid. She is very good, I would really appreciate the chance to train with her.
     
    Last edited: Sep 20, 2012
  12. Waldgeist

    Waldgeist Men who beg aren't heroes

    The walking stick choke/takedown at 1:50 is very similar to one of the cane defences in our hapkido syllabus.
     
  13. Devon

    Devon Valued Member

    You might want to look a bit closer, bearing in mind that black leotards are worn by many members of the Bartitsu Club of Chicago, that there was only one female practitioner at the School of Arms event, and that she doesn't appear in the video clip until 1.35 ...
     
  14. gapjumper

    gapjumper Intentionally left blank

    Ah my mistake. Defendu wasnt a Barton-Wright thing its Fairbairn and Sykes thing.

    The SDFR thing has been discussed prev in other threads and the same conclusion reached. Just wondered if there was other info from a different source.
     
  15. mattt

    mattt Valued Member

    Please exchange the word chick for dude. Well, either way nice movement displayed by him.
     
  16. Nojon

    Nojon Tha mo bhàta-foluaimein

    Did/does Bartitsu have La Canne influence? Or Something separate?(keeping in mind theres only so many ways to swing a cane and crack a head)
     
  17. Polar Bear

    Polar Bear Moved on

    Yeah it does, Pierre Vigny.

    The Bear.
     
  18. LilBunnyRabbit

    LilBunnyRabbit Old One

    You know one of the things I really like about bartitsu?

    Have you ever heard an argument over its history or origins?
     
  19. Smitfire

    Smitfire Cactus Schlong

    Can't help thinking Barton should have called it Barjitsu though.
     
  20. Polar Bear

    Polar Bear Moved on

    yeah it does sound like the fall out of an over exuberant night out in hooters

    The Bear.
     

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