Eskrima Kombat

Captain F.C. Laing’s 1902 article The ‘Bartitsu’ Method of Self Defence is an often-neglected resource for canonical Bartitsu stick training. As with all choreographed set-plays, Laing’s “examples” are best approached as formalised representations of certain technical and tactical options.  It would be naive to assume that, for example, an active, aggressive opponent would allow any given … Continue reading ““Attacked by a man with a stick in his hand”: an Interpretation of Captain Laing’s First Bartitsu Set-Play”