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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, [...]
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After 1900, there are a number of reasonably well-known Chinese-American boxers that fought in the western boxing tradition including at least two with variations on the name Ah Wing. The handful of Chinese-American boxers that fought in the 19th century are so obscure as to be unknown. Unfortunately they tended to be unknown in their [...]
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- “The Animated Bayeux Tapestry” by David Newton of Potion Graphics is...wait for it...the Bayeux tapestry animated! The Bayeux Tapestry is of course (more...) #
- Check out this photo essay Georgia: Reviving Ancient Martial Arts Traditions by Temo Bardzimashvili. It describes an (more...) #
- So the Journal of Asian Martial Arts (JAMA) has just announced that it is ceasing publication, which it is celebrating with a new website and book. It is not clear exactly what this means with a new website being launched where "new articles will be added periodically," but print publication is definitely ceasing and subscriptions are being refunded. Blurb about the new JAMA book: (more...) #
- Michael Demarco, editor of the Journal of Asian Martial Arts, passed along the news that Robert W. Smith has passed away. Even if, as is likely, you're familiar with his work, you'll still likely be surprised what all you can find in his impressive bibliography at EJMAS here. You can also find some Smith correspondence with E.J. Harrison here and here. As well as correspondence with Donn Draeger here. Lastly, here is a photo gallery posted by JAMA on facebook. #
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