Bartitsu - Self-defense with the hooked walking stick - cane fighting like Sherlock Holmes

Bartitsu was a martial art designed for selfdefense by Barton Wright in victorian London. The Bartitsu Academy of martial arts and physical culture includes different fighting arts as pugilism or bare knuckle boxing, Savate, Jiu Jitsu and Pierre Vignys new method of la canne - fighting with the walking cane for Gentlemen.
Bartitsu got also popular as Arthur Conan Doyle let his figure Sherlock Holmes use Baritsu at the Reichenbach falls against his opponent Professor Moriarty. This makes Bartitsu so famous under Victorian or Edwardian era larper and in the Steampunkt community.
Bartitsu was not the only martial art uses the cane as a weapon, check out our other videos on that topic for example the method of Col. Monstery taught in New York city, be a cane master and join us!
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[@peterjaimez1619]

This promises to be very good indeed 😀 Cheers

[@OliverJanseps]

Thank you for your trust 😊

[@robertdarr3486]

Thanks! Enjoyed the instruction.

[@OliverJanseps]

You're welcome 🙂 And thank you 🙏👍

[@russ7928]

Yes! Been looking forward to this! Hard to find Vids showcasing Vigny's Cane system so Thank You! Look forward to more European martial arts using the cane!

[@OliverJanseps]

We were also irritated not to find anything in that direction. A shortcoming that needs to be rectified 😉

[@Emma-db4es]

Sehr cooles Video!

[@OliverJanseps]

Danke sehr 🙂

[@sergeyleopard8872]

Einfache und gute Technik. Ich habe diese Art von Spazierstock, ein Geschenk. Wir warten auf die Fortsetzung. 👍🤝

[@OliverJanseps]

Danke dir 👍 Ich mag solche Stöcke, einfach und elegant. Ja, um eine Fortsetzung werden wir wohl nicht herum kommen 🙃

[@garyowen766]

nice!

[@OliverJanseps]

Thank you in advance Gary! Let me know if you liked what you will see 😃

[@garyowen766]

I will :) @@OliverJanseps

[@stevenbeck8166]

Hooking an opponent's neck or limb in a real fight seems unlikely, but I appreciate your research. Also crook canes so practical for everyday carry, to secure on arm or belt -- there instantly when needed for balance or defense and less threatening-looking than others. I'm studying Doyle-style Irish stick (bataireicht) myself.

[@OliverJanseps]

Your first point is what I tried to say at the end of the video, so we agree in that point. But infact these hooking is a way less fashy then some knots you will get taught today 🙃 I once take part in a seminar for the Dolyle style, very nice practical method 👌

[@WaybackFencingClub]

Great now I want to watch sherlock holmes. The one with ironman. Thanks.

[@OliverJanseps]

You're welcome 😁 enjoy!

[@FightCommentary]

Very interesting concepts!

[@OliverJanseps]

The two hooks on the leg are infact a transfer from a sweep by the foot with the same kind of braking the structure and balance first.

[@thierrysantkin9195]

Hello, very interesting. I would like you to show us techniques when an attacker grabs your cane. Thank you so much.

[@OliverJanseps]

I will put that on my list 😉 Let me have a look into some cane and umbrella sources from the 19th cent. Because I do not remember a specific one, but at least I could do a vid anyway 🙃

[@peterjaimez1619]

Fantastic, you take a couple of old pictures and made them come alive 😀 👍. Like the hat 🎩 . You are right, today canes with no crook are very rare. Unfortunately there is little materiel from Vigny. If i might repeat myself the book by Lang ("an Indian officer") is the only complete method of stick fighting that remains from that time, 1926?, and it's only for strikes at a distance. So what about more from the pictures of bartitsu, or Lang? Cheers

[@OliverJanseps]

Let's see hiw I feel about the hat, when I am done with some other Videos for canonical Bartitsu cane 🙃 I am 'afraid' of I have opened a Box of cookies and everyone wants more 😄🍪 And you really want to see some H.G. Lang. You will get it 🤝 but this will definetely took some time 😅

[@tuerkefechi]

Sehr schön gemacht 👍🏼

[@OliverJanseps]

Danke Dir 👍🙏

[@jessebumstead5154]

put your lead leg back at the same time your pulling his head down then use the knee to strike at the moment the head is down instead of waiting on the switch

[@OliverJanseps]

This would also a possible variation. But it would change the pulling technique drastically.

[@jessebumstead5154]

@@OliverJanseps change doesnt necessarily mean more or less efficient, would you, if you havent already; try it a few times then get backwith me about its efficiency... i no longer have sparring partners so i would like to hear about it from your experience.

[@OliverJanseps]

Definetely, also no one said this is the best variation, but it's the historical akkurat one 😉 I could imagin what will happend, but to be sure I will give it a try on the weekend 👍

[@rmch7922]

Professor Moriarty was an expert in this, did not help him much against an amateur boxer 😀

[@OliverJanseps]

If the writer is on the boxers side, you have no chance 🙃😉

[@TheFencingFox]

I like the hat🦊💚

[@OliverJanseps]

I also fellt more comfortable with that hat over the time 😄

[@Narguhl]

Ok. In dem Kontext des Gesamtvideos sieht das schon ganz anders aus als in dem reinen Ausschnitt der Shorts. Da kann man die noch etwas abgehackte Fußarbeit im erklärenden Kontext verzeihen.

[@OliverJanseps]

Bedankt, da hab ich ja nochmal Glück gehabt 🙂😉

[@florianamann7978]

Where can I get a Hat like this?

[@OliverJanseps]

The Model is called "boater" or "Kreissäge" 🙃 in German. If you know it, you will find them nearly anywhere 🙂

[@arthurwatts1680]

I'll keep this in mind if I ever run into Jack The Ripper.

[@OliverJanseps]

If you aren't a female workung on the backstreets, this probably might not happend 🙃

[@arthurwatts1680]

@@OliverJanseps given that I doubt we will ever know how many people fell prey to the Ripper, I doubt that we can make that assumption. Even today, we have thousands of missing persons cases that remain unsolved - back then, it would have been much easier for someone to disappear from those streets.

[@OliverJanseps]

From this point of view you will better have your cane at your side 😉

[@muizismail4844]

I want to carry cane,but it will be weird to see 28 year old guys like me carry it for self defense purpose. Maybe carry umbrella is good thing.

[@OliverJanseps]

If one feels unsafe, first thing should always be doing some (good) martial arts and real self-defense courses. Just carrying a tool one cant use is no benefit. But back to your "problem". A umbrella looked also weird in best hot summer 😉 If you are trained you look different, your body speaks different, and so it's with carrying a cane. You have to dont care what other might be thinking. I was one on vacation in NY City and bought an old shillelagh at the fleah market in hells Kirchen early in the morning. I had to carry it the whole day. Okay it was NY but I did not feel weird no one was really looking as I thought 😅

[@muizismail4844]

@@OliverJanseps I'm actually learn silat from my father, and learn arnis to. Maybe i care much about people around me, because i think they will say "young man, carry cane? That's odd?". Maybe i need to change my mindset and Don't care about what people think why I'm carry cane sometimes.

[@OliverJanseps]

I already thought you were training something. This fors more a generall reminder for the silent readers 😉 Silat is great! Also great in and for overall movement Art 👌 If I would carry a cane, I would prefer a crook or Derby just because one can hang it over things if not needed, over your own arm etc. So it's no big Handicap in real life.

[@pauldaystar]

Please Consider Doce Pares, Escrima Sticks Philippine Martial Arts, Balintiwa, Silat, Or Ancient Abir Queseth, Abraham Defeated Thousands Of Soldiers with 300+ Shepherds

[@OliverJanseps]

If real weapons are not available, sticks and staffs were always welcome 🙂 Greetings from an old Inayan Eskrimador 👋

[@pauldaystar]

@@OliverJanseps 🙏🏽🕊🕎✝️Thankyou for Sharing

[@OliverJanseps]

@@pauldaystar you're welcome, next one us in the making 😉

[@gemstonesvideograpghy6672]

Nothing new in martial arts. Similar principles in Ninpo Tai Jitsu, Kali/Escrima and other martial art systems using stick methods.

[@OliverJanseps]

Yeah, Humans come up with the same ideas for hurting others or lets say defending themselfs anywhere anytime 🙃

[@Narguhl]

Insgesamt wirken diese Techniken doch sehr nach dem aus was heute moderne Self-Defense Power-Fantasien sind, die erfordern daß der Gegner drei Tempi Pause macht. Aber die Umsetzung im Video war gut. Das Material scheint nur... naja... zu sein.

[@OliverJanseps]

Das kann ich nachvollziehen, geht mir nämlich ähnlich. Man darf an der Stelle nicht vergessen, dass es sich hierbei auch um "Werbung" für die eigene Schule handelt und Fantasien ansprechen ist da selten verkehrt. Man könnte auch sagen Barton Wright war 1902 seiner Zeit weit voraus und ist bereits in den 1980ern angekommen 😎😄 ... wenn es da nicht ähnliche Beispiele geben würde.

[@Narguhl]

@@OliverJanseps In diesem Kontext ergibt das absolut Sinn! Vor allem wenn man dann über eine Anpassung von Details etwas Wirksames draus machen kann obwohl (oder besser weil) man von der Quelle abweicht (aber die Kernidee dadurch besser umsetzt).

[@OliverJanseps]

Eben, es gibt nicht 'die eine Technik' und schon garnicht für jeden. HEMA kann immer nur eine Annäherung sein oder als Inspiration für modernes dienen.

[@Narguhl]

@@OliverJanseps Ich glaube wir könnten viel Spaß miteinander haben. Aber Aachen ist ein Stück Richtung Westen :D Sehen wir uns in München beim Gathering 24?

[@OliverJanseps]

@@Narguhl dann müssen wir den Spaß verschieben. Das Gathering bietet mir nicht die HEMA in dem ich unterwegs bin oder sagen wir ich habe für die Kurse so ziemlich nicht die passende Ausrüstung 😉 Das nächste große Event auf dem ich bin wird wohl die Tremonia Fechtschule sein. Aber Dortmund ist noch eine ganze Ecke weiter nördlich im Westen 🙃