This Week in Bartitsu:

Ongoing Bartitsu class runs 8pm-10pm every Monday and Wednesday and 3pm-5pm every Saturday.

Monday and Wednesday:

  • 8pm Warm up and review (all levels): Savate essentials
  • 9pm Fight Like Sherlock Holmes (Green Sash) and Blue Sash: Side Kick and Chassé
  • Red Sash: Front snap kick

Saturday, 13 December:

  • 2pm Fight Like Sherlock Holmes (Green Sash): Savate essentials
  • 3pm Jujitsu Lesson:
    • Fight Like Sherlock Holmes (Green Sash) and Blue Sash: Side Kick and Chassé
    • Red Sash: Front snap kick
  • 4pm Weapon Integration:
    • Blue Sash: Collar and elbow
    • Red Sash: Drop throw

Assessments

On November 28, we held a rank exam at Academie Duello for candidates in the Mastery Program and the Bartitsu program. The Blue Sash test is in three parts: demonstration of specific skills, reaction to self-defense situations, and sparring. The sparring section is three-minute rounds of jujitsu, followed by kickboxing, and then stick fighting.

Congratulations to our newest Blue Sashes:

  • Johann Weiss
  • Selman Halabi
  • Thomas Boylan

Get started with Victorian martial arts and modern gentleman’s self-defence: Your first step is an to sign up for our Fight Like Sherlock Holmes course which begins the first week of each month. Contact Academie Duello at 604-568-9907 to sign up.

For more on our classes, visit the Lessons page. For reading outside of class, check out the Fight Like a Gentleman Blog.