Athletes in Action

HOP, ST P A D JU~1P. THE STEP (6) IG. 6 on the opposite page portrays the beginning of the take-off for the tep. The tep must be given more of the character of a real "step " than of a "jump ." The height the athlete rises above the ground in the tep is a little more than a third of that attained in the Hop and a little le s than a third of the height he should reach in the Jump. imilarly, a man covering 18 ft. in distance in the Hop would c ver only some I 2 ft. in the tep and should be apable of reaching 21 ft. in the Jump, and so on in those pro- portions. A good deal of strength, ther fore, has been put into the Hop, and the remaining strength must be husbanded during the tep for the final ffort com- pri ing the Jump. ssuming that the tep is t be made from the left foot as shown in our illustrati ns, the athl te, after landing on the heel of the left foot at the con lusion of the Hop, and having swung through on to the ball f that foot, as shown in Fig. 5, will gath r himself together \ ith a slight er u h and left kn fl xed, as shown in Fig. 6 opposite, for the tep. ote in •ig. 6 that ray is well gathered together, with 1 ft knee bent for th drive, arms back at the id s in a fully balanced position, should r and hips square to the front, and that he is just beginning to get up n to the t c of the left foot for the t p. ote; als , th well-preserved forward b dy-lean, with head in the correct po iti n in r lation to the trunk. G