First reviews of the Bartitsu documentary are now in: http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2011/04/early-reviews-for-bartitsu-the-lost-martial-art-of-sherlock-holmes/
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First reviews of the Bartitsu documentary are now in: http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2011/04/early-reviews-for-bartitsu-the-lost-martial-art-of-sherlock-holmes/
Just a note that the long-awaited Bartitsu documentary is now available on DVD via http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/bartitsu.aspx .
Cheers,
Tony
After over a year of development, the new Bartitsu documentary (watch the trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNaC-2HW-A ) is now in the final stages of post-production. Hosted by Tony Wolf,...
http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2010/05/the-martial-athletics-of-diana-watts/
A mini-bio of the aforementioned author of "Fine Art of Jujutsu", including a video reanimation of some of her...
I got excited for a moment when I recalled that Yukio Tani's daughter's name was Moya, which might have been rendered as "May". She was Eurasian and was into judo/jujitsu when she was young;...
I'm afraid that May is still something of a historical cypher. Best guess is that she was a student of Charles Cawkell's - he was a colourful ex-Budokwai nidan with a bit of a flair for publicity. ...
Joe,
have you seen my book on Edith Garrud?
I'm currently prepping something on Emily (Diana) Watts as well - there was more to her than meets the eye.
Tony
The British Jujitsu Society is also worth investigating. This was apparently an off-shoot of William Bankier's Health and Strength League (they had membership badges and so-on) active throughout the...
The Bath University Library houses the Bowen Collection, bequeathed to them by the London Budokwai after Richard Bowen's death (Bowen, of course, having been the senior researcher into the histories...
The earliest "British jiujitsu" was determinedly eclectic. Barton-Wright trained in Shinden Fudo Ryu (not, apparently, the style of that name that is claimed as part of the modern Bujinkan lineage)...
Hi Paul,
regarding the Bartitsu documentary, 99% of the requisite footage is now in the hands of our editors (in Rome) and they are currently ordering it according to the script and storyboard;...
Hi Paul,
actually, I'll amend that; the tegatana appears in William Bankier's book, "Jiu Jitsu: What It Really Is", which features Tani and Uyenishi, as well as in the books written by William...
Hi Paul,
it may be that the tegatana was practiced by Barton-Wright but was simply not among the techniques he was photographed performing. An interviewer, Mary Nugent, hinted at his "special way...
I have contributed entirely new articles on several subjects, including one on a topic that was covered in the first edition and another that is new to the 2010 edition. I believe that the same...
I contributed some articles to the new edition - it's very extensively updated.
Tony
Gentlemen,
thanks for the kind words. The documentary is expected to be available on DVD and also as a rent-on-demand or buy-on-demand streaming download; we're aiming for a February release,...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDNaC-2HW-A
A preview trailer for the upcoming Bartitsu documentary, featuring interviews with Graham Noble and Harry Cook among others. The full documentary is due...
So the logic would be that Herman Ten Kate, a non-native Japanese speaker, rendered "Kunino Ichiro" as "Kunichiro" ... any idea where he would have gotten "Terajima" from? I know next to nothing...
Hi George,
ah, OK! I hadn't picked up on the "Kunino Ichiro"/"Terajima Kunichiro" connection previously.
With reference to the quote from the 1978 Bugei Ryuha Daijiten, am I correct in...
I needed a piece of music of a particular length to approximately match the video footage and chose the classical genre both because classical music is, in a sense, timeless and it was very popular...
Hi George,
thanks, that could be very useful. Can you cite the sources for identifying Barton-Wright's SFR as the kenpo version?
Cheers,
Tony
Thanks, all, for the kind words.
Steve, is there any way to confirm whether the still-extant branch of the Shinden-Fudo Ryu has any connection to that practiced in Kobe circa 1896? We know that...
Hi all,
this is a hobby project that I've been working on for a wee while. "Bartitsu, the gentlemanly art of self defence" outlines the history of E.W. Barton-Wright's pioneering fusion of...
(I'm conscious of the "no advertising" rule, so will understand if the moderators move or delete this post, but please note that the profits from this book are dedicated towards further research on...
According to Mr. Ten Kate's 1905 article, both he and Barton-Wright learned Shinden Fudo Ryu from Terajima Kunichiro at a dojo in Kobe; the name of Terajima Kunichiro's teacher was given as Yata...