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Saturday, February 01, 2014

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In 1898, Edward William Barton-Wright, a British engineer who had spent the previous three years living in the Empire of Japan, returned to England and announced the formation of a "New Art of Self Defence". This art, he claimed, combined the best elements of a range of fighting styles into a unified whole, which he had named X.
 
Barton-Wright summarised the essential principles of X as:
  • To disturb the equilibrium of your assailant.
  • To surprise him before he has time to regain his balance and use his strength.
  • If necessary, to subject the joints of any parts of his body, whether neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, back, knee, ankle, etc. to strains that they are anatomically and mechanically unable to resist.


What is X and where has it been immortalized? 

Saturday, February 01, 2014

Did You Miss Me

In 1898, Edward William Barton-Wright, a British engineer who had spent the previous three years living in the Empire of Japan, returned to England and announced the formation of a "New Art of Self Defence". This art, he claimed, combined the best elements of a range of fighting styles into a unified whole, which he had named X.
 
Barton-Wright summarised the essential principles of X as:
  • To disturb the equilibrium of your assailant.
  • To surprise him before he has time to regain his balance and use his strength.
  • If necessary, to subject the joints of any parts of his body, whether neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, back, knee, ankle, etc. to strains that they are anatomically and mechanically unable to resist.


What is X and where has it been immortalized?