Athletes in Action

THE L G }U:\1P (7) IF Fig. 13 opposit i c mpared with its c rrc pending action pictures, os. 4 and 9, it will be ecn that the thigh of the leading leg i now raised much higher, and that the leading leg is also given a greater d grec of flcxion at the knee while the advanced arm is swung up to a higher level than was attained previously at this stage f a mid-air tcp. The rea n for the e alterations in acti n is that no further mid-air step is to be made; the next and final, pha f the jump, on- stituting the shoot- £- the-legs fini h t the landing po iti n. t the tage of the jump portrayed in •ig. 14, opposite, th ho t-landing i ju t beginning. te that the body is held am st upright, th arms arc swung down t h uld r-lcvel, the left leg is alm t fully xtendcd and the right (rear) leg i whipped much m r quickly thr u h froro. back t fr nt than vvas the cas wh n a mid-air running- t p was being tak n. It is f primary imp rtance to maintain the upright p e f the trunk in thi s c ncluding . tagc of the jump. If th b dy lean back from the hip · the jump ·r will sit down a he lands and th jump will be ruined· if the body i for cd down ver the thigh the he ls, in th ir turn, will be driv ·n down o ner than i ncce - ary and many in he \vill be 1 t th ' rcby. l not be in too much of a hurry t complete the cxtcn ion of th right lower 1 g, once the knees arc both level.