“Excellent! I cried. “Elementary,” said he.

Weapon: Cane

Source: “Self defence with a walking stick”, by Edward William Barton Wright

We are diving cane first into bartitsu, a method of self defence that was all the rage in the turn-of the-20th-century England. Coined by and named after Edward William Barton-Wright, this method combines jiu-jitsu, boxing, savate, wrestling, and stick fighting. It was later popularized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who attributed this method of fighting to Sherlock Holmes’s victory over Moriarty. We will be utilizing our walking canes to follow Barton-Wright’s instructions to the public, published at the time in Pearson’s Magazine.

Skill level of Participants: Any skill level
Needed Equipment: Walking cane (some will be provided), gloves, jacket, groin protector, mask. Additional gear if you want to play at higher intensity.

About the trainer – Jerca Primc

My gateway drug to HEMA was Canne de combat, a french stick fighting sport, which is based on self defence methods that use a walking cane. It ignited my love for tournaments, and has led me to establish Canne klub Kamnik – a club that united a band of stick fighting enthusiasts in their quest for historical and modern cane fighting methods. I have since dabbed into several HEMA disciplines, but utilizing sticks as fighting weapons has remained a constant in my endavours. I have been an instructor since 2010, and have successfuly threathened the french domination in canne de combat since around the same time.