» Holmes http://www.bartitsu.org Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:02:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” fight scenes http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2009/01/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-fight-scenes/ http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2009/01/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-fight-scenes/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:59:19 +0000 Bartitsu Society http://www.bartitsu.org/?p=196 As an experienced boxer, stick fighter and expert in “baritsu”, Sherlock Holmes came close to E.W. Barton-Wright’s ideal of Bartitsu.  Click on the text links below to watch some fight sequences from the classic 1984 – 1994 Granada Television series, starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes.

Holmes attempts to fend off two attackers with his cane

Holmes demonstrates the gentlemanly art of fisticuffs

Holmes employs “baritsu” to defeat Professor Moriarty

]]> http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2009/01/adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-fight-scenes/feed/ 7 First fight-related pic. from new movie? http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2009/01/first-fight-related-pic-from-new-movie/ http://www.bartitsu.org/index.php/2009/01/first-fight-related-pic-from-new-movie/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:08:09 +0000 Bartitsu Society http://www.bartitsu.org/?p=185 This image from the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie shows a bloodied Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.)  standing in what may be a dog-fighting arena.  Bare-knuckle boxing, perhaps?

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