Athletics (British Sports Library)

202 ATHLETICS preference to cinders or hard turf. Train mostly with a half-run when practising the triple effort. The instructor, or brother athlete, must watch for the same faults and points set out in the last chap· ter ; in addition he must watch the dividing up of the Hop; Step, and Jump into its proper phases and see that the Hop is neither too high nor the Step in too much the nature of a jump. He should pay particular regard to the middle movement with dragging leg and relaxed side, observing that this necessary relaxation does not affect the keeping of the athlete's shoulders square to the front (Sketch I).