17. Bartitsu
Born in Victorian London, Bartitsu emerged as an eclectic martial art blending boxing, French Savate, wrestling, and Japanese jujutsu alongside distinctive cane-fighting techniques.
Created by Edward William Barton-Wright, Bartitsu gained fame through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, notably referenced as Holmes’s method of defeating Professor Moriarty.
Tailored for self-defense amidst the bustling, occasionally dangerous urban landscape of late-19th-century London, Bartitsu embodied a uniquely cosmopolitan approach to personal combat.
