Bartitsu

Bartitsu is a martial art and self defense system that has evolved 1898-1902 in England. A special feature of the system is the use of walking sticks as a weapon. Became known Bartitsu among others by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Sherlock Holmes novels in which the protagonist, also masters Bartitsu.

History

After Doyle's description is a mixture of Jiu Jitsu, the Swiss swing elements of boxing, Savate (French boxing ) and stock fencing. Elaborated has this struggle, the Indian-born British surveyor and engineer Edward William Barton -Wright (1860-1951), from which the term, a portmanteau word consisting of his name and the Japanese " Jiu Jitsu ," is derived. Back from India and Japan, where he himself had studied several self-defense arts, he founded in 1898 the Bartitsu Club, on Shaftesbury Avenue in Soho was also known as Bartitsu Academy of Arms and Physical Culture 67b. Soon the Swiss martial arts master Pierre Vigny was there head coach.