Lybrary.com: ebooks and download videos
Home / Magic & Conjuring / Hands, Fingers & Body

How to Pose as a Strong Man
by Edward Barton-Wright

$4
PDF | by download [0.57 MByte]  
How to Pose as a Strong Man by Edward Barton-Wright

Barton-Wright, one of the first Europeans to study Japanese martial arts, explains eleven pseudo-strength tricks in words and photos. Forty years before this publication Lulu Hurst created a sensation demonstrating similar stunts as manifestations of 'unexplainable forces'.

The tricks explained in this article are:

  1. How to Master a Man with Two Fingers
  2. How to Hold a Chair in the Palms of your Hands, and to Defy Anyone to Pull it through your Hands
  3. How to Lift from the Ground a Chair in which a Person is Seated
  4. How to Lift a Chair with Four Men Packed upon it
  5. How to Defy Anyone Standing in Front of You to Lift You from the Ground
  6. How to Defy Anyone Standing Behind You to Lift You from the Ground
  7. How to Lift from the Floor a Billiard Cue, Held Down by any Number of Men, with another Man Seated on Top
  8. How to Face a Wall, with your Arms Outstretched, and defy any Number of Strong Men to Push You against it
  9. How, when Lying at Length on Two Chair-backs Placed at your Extremities, to Support a Person Standing on your Chest
  10. How to Stand on One Foot and to Defy Anyone to Upset your Balance by a Slow, Straight Push
  11. How to Hold a Broom- stick in Your Hands, and to Defy Anyone to Push it through your Hands

1st edition 1899, PDF 16 pages.
word count: 3860 which is equivalent to 15 standard pages of text



This product is listed under the following topics:

Magic & Conjuring / Hands, Fingers & Body

Magic & Conjuring / Science & Math Tricks

Magic & Conjuring / Published 1800-1899