Bartitsu Bootcamp

by David McCormick

This week, I'm taking over the 7am SwordFit Bootcamp, and naturally, we're using Bartitsu skills as the foundation of our movements.

One-hour Class Outline

Welcome and Salute

Warm Up:

  • Jogging
  • Jump rope (Jumping Jacks for those without rope)
  • Medicine ball toss and catch with joint rotations

Boxing:

  • Preparation: Shadow boxing
  • Free punching focus pads
  • Lead punch chase

Savate:

  • Preparation: Leg swings
  • Coup de pied bas (low kick) or knee strikes

Jujitsu:

  • Preparation: Crab-switch, crab walk
  • Rolling
  • Partner lifting back-to-back

Walking stick:

  • Preparation: Front-bend, squat with cane overhead
  • Bayonet drill

Water break.

Stations: (1 min each)

  1. Heavy bag
  2. Light clubs: wrist rotations
  3. Med clubs: half-circles side raise
  4. Heavy clubs: half-circles front-back
  5. Hands and knees donkey kicks
  6. Supine bicycles
  7. Cane: Hit pell horizontal (one from left, one from right, switch hands)
  8. Cane: Vertical flourishes
  9. Burpees

Cool Down:

  • Walking around space randomly shaking hands with classmates
  • Stretching

Bartitsu Technique

This Saturday, don't miss our Introduction to Bartitsu: Fight Like Sherlock Holmes workshop. The bootcamp sweat is replaced by lessons and practice of the skills of self-defense of the 1890's.

And prepare for it with us by joining Friday's 7am SwordFit CaneFit (weird) Bootcamp!

Head of Stage Combat at Academie Duello and certified Instructor with Fight Directors Canada. Head of Bartitsu at Academie Duello, the longest continuously running Bartitsu program in the world.
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