258-Bartitsu: The Original Hybrid Martial Art Before Kajukenbo?

Almost 50 years before Kajukenbo was founded in Hawaii in the1950s, a British engineer introduced a hybrid martial art in London that combined boxing, Japanese jujutsu, savate, and cane fighting. It was called Bartitsu. In this episode of Social Gelo with Angelo, we break down the history of Bartitsu from 1899 to its collapse in 1902, its connection to Sherlock Holmes, and what modern Kajukenbo practitioners can learn from this early experiment in cross-training. Is Kajukenbo part of a larger historical pattern of hybrid martial arts? Or did Bartitsu simply disappear because it lacked what Kajukenbo built? Watch and decide.