The Bartitsu Society is an international collective of scholars and martial artists who are dedicated to extending the work begun by E.W. Barton-Wright. The Society maintains a two-tiered approach:
1) To preserve and promote �classical Bartitsu�, the forty techniques known to have formed part of Barton-Wright�s syllabus, both as a mark of respect for the founder and as a common technical and tactical vocabulary: �Bartitsu as it was�.
2) To develop �modern Bartitsu� as a range of practical self-defence systems inspired by Barton-Wright�s philosophy and drawing largely from the source arts of Jiujitsu, boxing, savate and European stick-fighting as they were practised during the �classical� period of 1890 � 1920: �Bartitsu as it can be today�.