I’d like to add a plug for a workshop I took in the summer last year. Bartitsu: Fight Like Sherlock Holmes, is a course offered at Academie Duello, a studio for the western martial arts, swords, fencing, that sort of thing. When Bartitsu offered in London a hundred years ago, it was the first time eastern martial arts were presented in the western world. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mentioned Bartitsu (as Baritsu) in his final book on Sherlock Holmes, and hence today we have a new Sherlock Holmes movie directed by BJJ brown belt Guy Ritchie and starring, as Sherlock Holmes, Wing Chung practitioner Robert Downey Jr.

Learn to Fight Like Sherlock Holmes

Bartitsu: Fight Like Sherlock Holmes

Saturday, January 23 – 2:00pm to 6:00pm

Learn the fighting style of Sherlock Holmes in this unique one-day workshop at Academie Duello. England in the 19th century was replete with instructors in martial arts from the world over. E.W. Barton-Wright had returned from Japan and opened a school to teach the English gentleman how to defend himself against ruffians using only the most effective techniques whether unarmed or carrying the accessory of the time: the walking-stick. The Bartitsu system worked so well that Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle wrote that Sherlock Holmes used it to defeat Moriarty.

bartitsu arm takedown

Learn:

• English boxing, French kickboxing and the English interpretation of Judo
• Stick fighting and self-defense with an umbrella
• Modern urban self-defense evolved from the principles of Bartitsu

Whether your interest is in history or practical self-defense, this workshop will give you the skills and knowledge of 19th century fighting.

More info, photos, history, in my earlier blog post.

Learn more at bartitsu.org

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