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How to Form a Physical Culture Club
Seeing as I have bartitsu on the brain lately after the Chicago seminar, I thought that modern-day bartitsukas, who generally must start their own club in order to practice the art, may want a look at this 1902 Health and Strength article about starting a physical culture club. The advice is probably still mostly relevant, [...]
William, It Was Really Nothing
“The Animated Bayeux Tapestry” by David Newton of Potion Graphics is…wait for it…the Bayeux tapestry animated! The Bayeux Tapestry is of course a huge piece of embroidered cloth (230 ft long!) that tells the lead up and conclusion to the Battle of Hastings (1066). This is one of the few dates in history I can [...]
Georgian Martial Arts
Check out this photo essay Georgia: Reviving Ancient Martial Arts Traditions by Temo Bardzimashvili. It describes an (apparently popular) HEMA group in the Caucasus nation of Georgia resurrecting martial traditions and techniques in a familiar manner: With a group of friends, ranging from artists to economists, Tsistriashvili started researching the subject as the Soviet Union [...]
