Instructions in All Kinds of Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

25 sooner to the ground, and, consequently shorten the leap, by not springing a proper heighth. The descent has no difficulty whateverin it, if the groundbetween e and d, consistsof loose sand, as before recommended. The feet are closed, the knees bent, and the whole of the upper part of the body inclined for­ ward. The toes touch the groundfirst, and therefore sink in deepest. At the same moment, a light spring is made,accompanied by some short steps, in order not to give a suddencheck to the force of the body, but to let it die away gradually. Faults. —These consist in throwing the feet toomuch forward,so as to causethe leaper to fall backward after the descent; separating the feet during the descent, insteadof letting them come to the ground exactly at the same moment. Orderof exercises in the long leap : 1. The leap of double the length of the body. 2. That of ticice and a half this length. 3. That of three times this length. 4. Learners of equal size try to outleap each other. The teacher should now take his pupils to some rivulet, and let one of themgive the