Tuesday 1 September 2015

'In a sense, this tradition was immediately picked up by Pierre Vigny, albeit not as "Bartitsu" per se; it seems likely that Barton-Wright and Pierre Vigny simply had common goals and methods, and that their collaboration at the Bartitsu Club had led them both in similar directions. Either way, there is little to distinguish between Bartitsu and Pierre Vigny's self defence system as it was described in the years following the demise of the Bartitsu Club.
Perhaps the most detailed and developed applications of the Bartitsu philosophy emerged in the self-defence manuals published by French defence dans la rue instructors Jean Joseph Renaud and George Dubois, who had trained in jiujitsu with the Bartitsu Club instructors and went on to fold it into their own eclectic self defence systems.'
Tony Wolf

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