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Sherlock Holmes Self Defence

When confronted by a brute in the more insalubrious environs of our great cities, a gentleman should be equipped with the means and the knowledge to defend himself.Practiced by celebrated British detective Sherlock Holmes, the martial art of Bartitsu can be exceedingly effective in the hands of a quick and confident exponent.Find herewith such techniques as:- how to eject a troublesome man from a room- how to overcome a ruffian who attacks you with a knife- how to repel an assailant who positions himself in the path of your bicycle- how to disable a boxer who attempts to rush you when you are armed with only a stickE.W. Barton-Wright (1860-1951) studied jiu-jitsu and judo in Japan during the 1890s and went on to set up a school in England teaching a hybrid form of oriental and European self-defence he called Bartitsu.