Comments on: The Bartitsu Legacy

By: Bartitsu Society

Bartitsu Society — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:42:46 +0000

Hi William,

it would be best for you to ask about fellow enthusiasts via the Bartitsu Forum email list – http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/Bartitsu_Forum/ .

By: william

william — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:23:43 +0000

hello / i would like to contact anybody in the warrington area who is interested in baritsu / my email address is joyce.stuart@sky.com / thank you

By: Bartitsu Society

Bartitsu Society — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:02:33 +0000

Philip, you’re right about Japanese phonetics. The most prosaic explanation is that Doyle may simply have saved a copy of a 1901 London Times article which had likewise misspelled Bartitsu as baritsu, and referred to that when it came time to resurrect Sherlock Holmes.

By: Philip Taylor

Philip Taylor — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:18:16 +0000

Regarding the statement “No-one knows why Doyle mis-spelled the name of the art”, I wonder whether it was simply that “Baritsu” could easily be taken for a genuine Japanese word (in transliteration) whilst “Bartitsu” could not (as far as I know, the “r” sound in Japanese is always followed by a vowel).

By: jose antonio

jose antonio — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:45:10 +0000

Gracias

By: Bartitsu Society

Bartitsu Society — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:35:32 +0000

Hola Jose,

No sé de ninguna grupos de Bartitsu en España. Tenemos dos libros que podrían ayudarle a conseguir comenzado – http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-bartitsu-compendium-volume-1-history-and-the-canonical-syllabus/191864

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-bartitsu-compendium-volume-ii-antagonistics/5225421

- solamente están ambos en inglés. Espero que esto le ayude.

By: JOSE ANTONIO

JOSE ANTONIO — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 06:49:59 +0000

Hola, pido disculpas por que no se ingles, soy jose y vivo en Girona (spain) soy instructor de defensa personal y practicante de esgrima antigua (DESTREZA ESPAÑOLA), quisiera saber si hay algun grupo que trabaje bartitsu por España , y de no haber que es lo que me imagino, sin hay algun libro o tratado que se pueda trabajar de manera autodidacta.

SALUDOS JOSE.

By: Bartitsu Society

Bartitsu Society — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:05:15 +0000

Hi Gordon,

thanks for the link. I think that the article probably dates no later than WW1, most likely circa 1907. Regnier’s “moment in the sun” was quite brief, and AFAIK he had largely retired by the 1920s.

Cheers,

Tony

By: James

James — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:11:54 +0000

Very interesting, thank you!

Prof. Re-Nie was a Parisian wrestler called Ernest Regnier, who studied jujitsu under Tani in London around 1905. He returned to Paris and fought under the name Re-nie and has some spectacular success. One notable example was a ‘Savate vs Jujitsu’ match against a famed savateur called George Dubois. Regnier parried the first blow, a low kick and the fight went to the ground. 30 seconds in Regnier won with a classic straight arm-bar. Not a million miles from what we saw in the early MMA fights.

By: Gordon Fong

Gordon Fong — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 23:59:07 +0000

The bottom image of this web page may be of interest-

http://www.bournemouthwadoryu.co.uk/jujutsu/