Eskrima Kombat

Of all of the exercises described in Captain F.C. Laing’s 1902 essay The Bartitsu Method of Self-Defence, the “4th Practice” is the most difficult to follow. It is presented as a training drill but it has most of the characteristics of a self-defence set-play.  Laing’s instructions are also uncharacteristically ambiguous, so what follows is simply one of several … Continue reading “An Interpretation of Captain Laing’s “4th Practice” of Bartitsu Stick Fighting”