Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
These are two of the canonical Canne Vigny plays with the walking stick from the Bartitsu club demonstrated in the Pearsons Magazin in Edwardian era London.
If you want to learn Bartitsu - These are techniques you have to know.
This is how Pierre Vigny taught to face an opponent as a Gentleman in the Streets of London as la canne system.
He created it differently to other French stick fighting systems of that time. Later he became head instructor of the Bartitsu academy of martial arts and physical culture in London.
Bartitsu was a martial art designed for self-defence by Edward Barton Wright in London. It's curriculum manly focus on Jiu Jitsu and stick fighting for the English gentleman.
We will have a look at that topic from a HEMA point of view. Our historical fencing background gives us insides others may not have.
Using the cane or umbrella to protect us in self defense is still a topic today. But this will be just the view cane masters of the past have on that topic.
Bartitsu got also popular as Arthur Conan Doyle let his figure Sherlock Holmes use Baritsu at the Reichenbach falls against his opponent Professor Moriarty. This makes Bartitsu so famous under Victorian or Edwardian era larper and in the Steampunkt community.
Bartitsu was not the only martial art uses the cane as a weapon, check out our other videos on that topic for example the method of Col. Monstery taught in New York city, be a cane master and join us!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK75bQPdT1yAio6nAjaJUa1tZHg8HfjOm
See some of our books and translations here:
epubli.de/shop/autor/Oliver-Janseps/30604
lulu.com/spotlight/oliverjanseps
Or support us on Patreon.com/Fencyfriends
If you want to join us, Mispeldorn is located in Aachen Germany
We are one of the finest clubs for smallsword and sabre if you look for a different kind of weapon in HEMA. Maybe you are interested to join our study group for cane, staff and Savate or just come for a visit!
#hema #canefightingtechniques #stickfighting #martialarts #lacanne #selfdefense #canemasters #historicalfencing #victorianera #bartitsu #history
These are two of the canonical Canne Vigny plays with the walking stick from the Bartitsu club demonstrated in the Pearsons Magazin in Edwardian era London.
If you want to learn Bartitsu - These are techniques you have to know.
This is how Pierre Vigny taught to face an opponent as a Gentleman in the Streets of London as la canne system.
He created it differently to other French stick fighting systems of that time. Later he became head instructor of the Bartitsu academy of martial arts and physical culture in London.
Bartitsu was a martial art designed for self-defence by Edward Barton Wright in London. It's curriculum manly focus on Jiu Jitsu and stick fighting for the English gentleman.
We will have a look at that topic from a HEMA point of view. Our historical fencing background gives us insides others may not have.
Using the cane or umbrella to protect us in self defense is still a topic today. But this will be just the view cane masters of the past have on that topic.
Bartitsu got also popular as Arthur Conan Doyle let his figure Sherlock Holmes use Baritsu at the Reichenbach falls against his opponent Professor Moriarty. This makes Bartitsu so famous under Victorian or Edwardian era larper and in the Steampunkt community.
Bartitsu was not the only martial art uses the cane as a weapon, check out our other videos on that topic for example the method of Col. Monstery taught in New York city, be a cane master and join us!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK75bQPdT1yAio6nAjaJUa1tZHg8HfjOm
See some of our books and translations here:
epubli.de/shop/autor/Oliver-Janseps/30604
lulu.com/spotlight/oliverjanseps
Or support us on Patreon.com/Fencyfriends
If you want to join us, Mispeldorn is located in Aachen Germany
We are one of the finest clubs for smallsword and sabre if you look for a different kind of weapon in HEMA. Maybe you are interested to join our study group for cane, staff and Savate or just come for a visit!
#hema #canefightingtechniques #stickfighting #martialarts #lacanne #selfdefense #canemasters #historicalfencing #victorianera #bartitsu #history
