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Looked up HEMA and found Bartitsu:
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Bully!
That's the martial art that Sherlock Holmes practices.
(Well, it's called "Baritsu" in the stories, but most agree that that was a typo.)
Nice, they say it's been having a revival lately. I hope that all practitioners are required to wear a stylish hat and a handlebar mustache.
It's fun that one of the influences is Savate. That's another fun martial art. The theory is that hitting someone with a closed fist was seen as attacking with a deadly weapon in France, so the sailors (who liked to brawl) developed a fighting technique using kicks and open-handed slaps.