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About Bartitsu Sports

Bartitsu is an eclectic martial art and self-defence method originally developed in England in 1898?1902, combining elements of boxing, jujitsu, cane fighting, and French kickboxing (savate). In 1903, it was immortalised (as "baritsu") by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Although dormant throughout most of the 20th century, Bartitsu has experienced a revival since 2002.

Mixed Martial Arts has become one of the most popular sports the world over. After humble beginnings and critics that once called it barbaric and/or “human cockfighting,” it has evolved into a massive moneymaker with massively attended arenas and purchased pay-per-view events televised across the globe.

Fighters have been training in multiple disciplines likely since the advent of martial arts, always evolving and searching for new methods to be a more effective fighter. Bruce Lee’s Jeet Kune Do is itself a mixture of Chinese Kung fu, French Savate, Western-style boxing, fencing, and even with various jiu-jitsu joint locks and chokes interspersed as seen during the introduction portion of the classic movie, “Enter the Dragon”.

Each combination of styles is unique to the time and place where it is developed and the conditions that must be taken into account when it is devised and thus applied for maximum effectiveness. This brings me to a Victorian-era English gentleman by the name of E.W. Barton-Wright, his creation of “Bartitsu”.


History of Bartitsu

According to The Bartitsu Society, “In March of 1899, readers of an article appearing in London’s Pearson’s Magazine were intrigued to learn that a “New Art of Self Defence” had been introduced to their city. The author of the article and founder of the New Art was Edward William Barton-Wright… As detailed in the series of articles Barton-Wright authored between 1899 and 1902, his New Art ? which he referred to as Bartitsu ? was largely drawn from various ko-ryu (“old school”) forms of jiujitsu. Over the next several years he also incorporated tactics and combat techniques from British boxing, kicking, and a stick fighting style that had been developed by a Swiss Maitre d’Armes, Pierre Vigny. As such, Bartitsu ? the word was a portmanteau of “Barton-Wright” and “jiujitsu”, defined by Barton-Wright himself as “self-defence in all its forms” ? became the first combat system to combine Asian and European martial arts. Bartitsu was taught at the Bartitsu School of Arms and Physical Culture and promoted through a series of well-publicised challenge matches, pitting Barton-Wright’s Japanese and Swiss champions against exponents of various other combat sports. These challenges anticipated the mixed martial arts craze of the 1990s by nearly one hundred years.”


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