Ran Braun will be teaching a one-day clinic in theatrical/cinematic Bartitsu via the Red Crow Stunt organisation on Sunday, May 15th in the town of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy.

The Bartitsu clinic will run between 11.00-1.30 and 2.30-5.00 and will be proceeded by a seminar in stunt equestrianism on Saturday, May 14th. All details are available from info@redcrowstunt.com.

Ran Arthur Braun (pictured left in the foreground, above) recently presented a Bartitsu seminar for twenty martial artists and police officers in the town of Spino d’Adda, Italy. The one-day intensive covered both unarmed combat and self defence with a walking stick.

The seminar was a great success and a further, much larger Bartitsu training session is planned for Spring.

An introductory Bartitsu workshop lead by Ran Arthur Braun, with the collaboration of master-at-arms and police officer Maestro Gaetano Papagni will be held on January 23rd at Spino d’Adda (about 20 km. from Milan, driving towards Crema).

Time: 11.00 – 13.30 (unarmed combat)
14.30 – 17.30 (walking stick self defence)

For details, please contact Maestro Gaetano Papagni at gaee61@yahoo.it

I would like to begin by thanking my hosts, especially Bartitsu Italia and the Cletarte cultural organisation, for their tireless and expert support. From arranging hotel accommodation and sight-seeing expeditions to dinners and press conferences, they were a delight to work with and I hope to visit them again soon.

The three-day masterclass series in Rome was a great success, with a wonderfully enthusiastic body of students representing the gamut of martial arts and stage combat experience. It was held in a new (in parts, still under construction) sports and exercise facility in the heart of the city.

Day one was devoted to learning about the cultural history and basic principles of Bartitsu: the biomechanical and tactical precepts that underlie Barton-Wright’s fusion of boxing, jiujitsu, savate and stick fighting, and the process of applying neo-Bartitsu drills to many of Barton-Wright’s canonical self defence sequences.

The second day was largely given over to the application of Bartitsu to stage combat and stunt fighting, and day three was devoted to neo-Bartitsu as self defence. The Rome seminars generated nine hours of professionally shot high-def video footage.

The Greco Academy, Rome

Amantea, Calabria

Interview for Calabrian television

Priamar Fortress

Finally, notes of personal thanks to Ran, Aile, Rocco, Jerome, Paolo, Angelica, Filomena, Gaetano, Luca, Daniele, Alessandro, Michele and Giuseppe. Grazie mille.

* combat body mechanics and tactics based on E.W. Barton-Wright’s Bartitsu precepts

* improvisation and the ability to spontaneously blend boxing, savate, jiujitsu and stick fighting

* the cultural history of Bartitsu as the first “fusion” martial art combining Asian and European fighting styles

For more information, please visit the Bartitsu Italia website.

The inaugural event of the new Bartitsu Italia association will be a series of Bartitsu seminars taught by Tony Wolf and organised by Ran A. Braun and Paolo Papparella.

Seminar 1: August 28-30 in Rome
Seminar 2: September 2-4 in Cosenza (Calabria)

Both seminars will include intensive introductions to canonical and neo-Bartitsu training drills as well as discussions of Bartitsu history and related subjects.

For further details and booking information please contact info@bartitsu.it and/or see http://www.bartitsu.it/eventi.html.