04/07/2026
Old School Polish Cane Fighting
Old school Polish cane fighting for self-defense
Old walking stick fighting is not always Bartitsu. We present you an even more simpler method to defend yourself with an walking cane from post World War I P...
02/05/2026
Vintage Jiu-Jitsu Lessons From Theodore Roosevelt’s Personal Instructor
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08/10/2025
Edward William Barton-Wright (1860–1951) was a British engineer, martial artist, and self-defense innovator best known as the founder of Bartitsu, an eclectic martial art that combined elements of jujutsu, boxing, cane fighting, and savate. After working abroad as an engineer, including time in Japan where he studied jujutsu, Barton-Wright returned to London in the late 1890s and introduced his hybrid system as both a practical means of self-defense and a form of physical culture. Through his Bartitsu Club, he taught gentlemen and ladies alike, attracting notable martial artists and fencers of the era. Though Bartitsu faded from public attention after the early 1900s, Barton-Wright’s pioneering approach influenced modern martial arts cross-training and is remembered today as one of the first attempts to systematically blend Eastern and Western fighting traditions.
08/09/2025
Unarmed Self-Defense From WWII
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03/21/2025
Don Draper Judo: Unarmed Self-Defense from the Mad Men Era
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03/08/2025
Female broadsword fighter, by William Hogarth, circa 1721–26.