Athletes in Action

9 Each ection i~ divided into fundamental pha ·es of a particular event . Each pha e i illu trated by a separate picture and is. de cribed and analysed on the page oppo ite to that picture. Each phase should be practised separately and the athlete'· action should be checked by mean of nap hot until he is style-perfect in each phase. .At the end of each eYent- ection the phase-pictures are a embled in their proper ·equence to form a sort of low-motion film, o that the athlete may ee at a glance the whole equence of action he i required to perform. The phase mu t, firt, be linked up in low time a hown by the appropriate summary; but speed and strength of effort may be increased a proficiency grows. •'en however, when one is fully proficient two day hould be allowed in each week for re t; on four days one hould work simply f r tyle and to correct faults, but the athlete may go nearly" all-out n the remaining day. In this connection every athlete hould have a schedule to work to and, no matter how well or how badly he i doing he hould neither decrease nor increa ·c hi work on an) particular day, although h may' ary hi schedule a· a v hole~ if he find that it doe not uit him. The scheme of . Jthh·trs iu ActiO!l po tulate that the athlete will always take the book on to the training-ground with him~ so that he may imitate the attitude hown in th · pictures and carry ut the in ·tructions given in the tc.·t. That i why the book ha been made of blazer-pocket ize. T achieve the be t re ult t\ o athlete hould work together one instructing and the other acting a pupil, turn and turn about. But they should make fullu e of the camera al o, and hould compare the snap- hot they take of one another with the illu trations giv n in this book . c ach' ho i · in ·tru tin., pupil hould place them care- fully in po ition by hand and ·hould let the athlete ee, by mean' of ' ' na and c mparison with the book illu tra tion ,. where they are oing right and where wrong. Be ontent to work 1 wly f r tyle, " acrordin to the book, ,. and the bi rc·ult in competition will come urpri ingly quickly. F. 1 • M. \VEBSTER. Biddcnham Bedford. March 1931.