Lost no more? Bartitsu and Bartitsuka in the News.

t seems that Sherlock Holmes’ “forgotten” martial art is slowly, but steadily, seeping into the public consciousness! While Tony Wolf has been busy writing about and documenting Bartitsu history for years, we told you recently about the newly formed Bartitsu Club of Chicago, his experiment in on-going, progressive training in both canonical and neo-bartitsu. The [...]

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Georges Dubois, the Forgotten Master of Ancient Fencing (L’Escrime Ancienne)

lthough the pioneering work of Alfred Hutton and Egerton Castle is well-known to students of Historical European Martial Arts, far-fewer are aware of the expansive, and longer-lasting, efforts of their “spiritual heir”, George Dubois (1865 – 1934). Dubois was a professional sculptor and Olympic athlete, who had studied savate and fencing since childhood, and became [...]

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Why Peter Falkner? A Video Overview

n the waning years of the 15th century, Peter Falkner was a long-time member and sometime captain of the famed Marxbruder fencing guild, and it was during this tenure that he set about creating an illustrated fight book of his own. Colorful, painted figures and short captions depict combat with a wide variety of weapons: [...]

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First fully-intact UK Viking Ship Burial Found in Scotland

hose crazy Vikings. They really did sail everywhere: Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, France, Iberia, Russia, Byzantium…. Ardnamurchan Don’t feel bad, we’d never heard of it, either. Actually, we initially thought it sounded like some ancient, Meso-American site. Turns out is is just a really out of the way part of Scotland. So, there is no Maya-meets-Vikings [...]

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Really? Did they ask the guys who *use* the armour?

here was a recent study in the UK that measured the cardiovascular effect of wearing armour on combatants: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14204717   Ah, science! Now, as much fun as the image of a man in 15th century harness on a treadmill might be, the summary of the test’s conclusions was rather fascinating: Medieval suits of armour were [...]

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Welcome to the Freelancer!

es, Freelance Academy Press is now live with its very own blog! It seems that everyone has a blog these days, whether there is a reason to have one or not. Therefore the first question we asked ourselves was “what is the point in having a blog?” The answer was you. As a niche publisher, [...]

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