“Clint” Barton was only 14 when he joined a carnival and attracted the attention of the show’s star Jacques Duquesne, the Swordsman. Duquesne trained Barton in the art of throwing knives, but quickly realized the boy was natural at archery and turned him over to Trickshot, the carnival’s archer. On stage, Barton was known as Hawkeye the Marksman. While Hawkeye has no superhuman powers (with the exception of the period when using Pym particles to become Goliath), he is at the very peak of human conditioning; he is an exceptional fencer, acrobat and a grandmaster marksman, having been trained from childhood in the circus and by the criminals Trick Shot and Swordsman. This includes considerable strength, as a super villain found out when he tried to use the superhero's 250 pounds-force (1,100 newtons) draw weight bow and found that he could not draw back the string to launch an arrow. Hawkeye has also been thoroughly trained by Captain America in tactics, martial arts, and hand-to-hand combat.