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How to Pose as a Strong Man

Trick No. 9 - How, when lying at length on two chair-backs placed at your extremities, to support a person standing on your chest from How to Pose as a Strong Man an article by Edward William Barton-Wright in Pearson's Magazine, March 1899. Barton-Wright developed a hybrid martial art which he called Bartitsu, after studying in Japan

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10282447
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47419184
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Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Pearson's Magazine, volume VII, January to June 1899, page 65
Date
1899

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