Joseph Pilates: A Circus Performer

In 1912 at age 29, Joseph Pilates moves from Germany to England and he starts working in a wild range of jobs. He is briefly a self-defense trainer for local police and then Scotland Yard. At one point he fought a lion. This is just taken from Eugene Sandow's like Tinder profile. Some of these don't sound real. We still see this now. It's so fucking weird.