Jujitsu trainer of the Suffragette bodyguards to be honored with plaque

**DdlR** · Posted On: 6/26/2012 2:29pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...e-martial-arts

Hidden history coming to light a hundred years later ...

**Permalost** · Posted On: 6/26/2012 2:53pm

Interesting stuff. I was surprised to read that they trained Indian clubs as concealed weapons.

**DdlR** · Posted On: 6/26/2012 3:07pm

Yep. They kept the clubs concealed in the bustles of their dresses and seem to have mostly used them knock off police constables' helmets - the constables had to pay for lost helmets out of their wages, so it was kind of a distraction tactic.

**Permalost** · Posted On: 6/26/2012 4:41pm

Originally Posted by DdlR

Yep. They kept the clubs concealed in the bustles of their dresses and seem to have mostly used them knock off police constables' helmets - the constables had to pay for lost helmets out of their wages, so it was kind of a distraction tactic.

This must be the lineage of Hegehogey's jiujitsu.

**italian judoka** · Posted On: 8/11/2012 9:54am

Originally Posted by Permalost

This must be the lineage of Hegehogey's jiujitsu.

According to Wikipedia, Edith Garrud studied Bartitsu, a self defence method derived from Judo and Ju-Jitsu, introduced in London in 1898 by Edward William Barton White, a British engeneer who had worked in Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu

May be intriguing to know that even Sherlock Holmes in Conan Doyle fiction had mastered this method.