Instructions in All Kinds of Gymnastic Exercises (extract)

55 explained by the fig. 1, 2, and 3, Plate VI. Many learn to swing the legs so well, as to make them, during the highest part of the leap, lie considerablyabove the head. In the following exercises, the teacher must make the leapers proceed gradually fromone to the other: between the different heights, there are still many inches marked upon the posts of the leaping-stand, by which the cord can be raised higher and higher. Order of gymnastic exercises in the high leapwith a pole ; 1. The height of the hips. 2. That of the pit of the stomach. 3. That of the chin. 4. That of the crown of the head. 5. That of the joints of the fingers; that is as high as the latter can reach. All these exercises are performed with the quitting of the pole. Exercises 6, 7, 8, 9. and 10, forma repeti­ tion of the preceding ones, with this dif­ ference, that the leaper carries the pole over the cord with him. Exercises 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15, are also a repetition of the first set, except that the leaper, between the spring and the descent.