Bartitsu?

[Freddy Chavez]

Is that what Robert Downey Jr. used in Sherlocke Holmes ?

[Chris Herzog]

Herzog - Are you available for a Bartitsu seminar??

Theres a joke in there somewhere about A Bar, Tits and Jiu Jitsu....

[Aab]

Is that what Robert Downey Jr. used in Sherlocke Holmes ?

Downey used Wing Chun

[AJ Camacho]

Downey used Wing Chun

I thought it was cocaine.

[Michael Romano]

JiuJitsu = The Gentle Art
Bartitsu = The Gentleman's Art

[Jared Gammel]

I thought it was cocaine.

and Opium.

[Ben]

I did a report on the fighting art for my JROTC class once. As far as I can tell, he was the MMA guy of the past. Combined western wrestling, Judo, savate, cane fighting, and ect. He also was big into weird forms of therapy and massage (Read: We're completely different because pot and yoga). He was also one of the guys making realistic self-defense big, so I'm a huge fan of what he did (not so much his technique, but what he wanted to do with the martial arts). Really cool guy, really cool style of fighting.

[frank-theman-james]

Downey used Wing Chun

Actually it was kenpo karate which is a soft style which looks a lot like other styles of Chinese descent. The truth was in the pattern of striking that leads your opponent to the next strike. Ask Neale hoerle about it he thought it was impressive.

[AJ Camacho]

I did a report on the fighting art for my JROTC class once. As far as I can tell, he was the MMA guy of the past. Combined western wrestling, Judo, savate, cane fighting, and ect. He also was big into weird forms of therapy and massage (Read: We're completely different because pot and yoga). He was also one of the guys making realistic self-defense big, so I'm a huge fan of what he did (not so much his technique, but what he wanted to do with the martial arts). Really cool guy, really cool style of fighting.

Really? Though he did provide a gym that contained various martial arts styles (albeit at an insanely inaccessible price) there was never truly a unified style between them. Yes, Barton-Wright was familiar with all of those styles but he was not a master at any of them. I think he only studied Judo at the Kodokan for 3 years or less. His greatest achievement was in bringing all of these skilled fighters together under one roof where there was a collusion of techniques between them.

Baritsu itself was just his incomplete theoretical cherry picking iteration of his own shallow martial arts knowledge.

The thing that brought his gym acclaim where his two Judokas that tore through the entire region's challenge wrestlers at the local music halls.

I don't know, I respect what Barton tried to do but I always feel like he gets more attention for his fictional tie with Sherlock Holmes when Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi did far more for Jujitsu/Judo and MMA than Barton ever did.

[Jason Hyatt]

I think I peed a little... too much funny to be at work right now... can't breathe... still laughing...

I think that's the new seminar poster pic coach!