I taught four Bartitsu oriented classes this weekend at the Midway Village History Museum's Chatauqua in Rockford, IL I taught a pugilism and a Bartitsu class on both Saturday and Sunday. The Bartitsu class was based mostly on Vigny's walking stick system.
I was happy to get student's from the crowd for all of the classes. I had children participating in three out of four of the classes, I have never taught six and nine year old girls pugilism before :-{)
The Curator of Education was pleased enough with the response to suggest we would be invited back next year. I am hoping we can set up an area of our own so we can talk to folks about historical martial arts and physical culture between the classes.
I also want to thank my friends and students Michael Pennock and Antina Richards-Pennock for helping with the classes and of course the president of Gallowglass Academy, and my wife, Andrea for taking photos. We will post the photos as soon as we get them out of the camera