A well travelled English engineer, William Barton-Wright studied under Jigoro Kano, the father of judo and several other jujitsu masters before returning to the UK where he began formulating his own ideas regarding self defence.
On his
A well travelled English engineer, William Barton-Wright studied under Jigoro Kano, the father of judo and several other jujitsu masters before returning to the UK where he began formulating his own ideas regarding self defence.
On his return to London in 1898, Barton-Wright set up a School of Arms in Shaftsbury Avenue where boxing, fencing, wrestling, savate and with the aid of two prominent Japanese, Yukio Tani and Sadakazu Uyenishi, jujitsu was also taught.
To promote his school, Barton-Wright toured the music halls with Tani and Uyenishi offering a £20 purse, equal to 10 weeks wages, to anyone who could stay on their feet for 15 minutes with either of these