Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

THE . ~OLE-JUMP 113 face downwards towards the ground, thus completing the half-turn (see fig. 35), and is raised over the bar by the athlete pressing strongly up with the arms, from the hands which grasp the pole-the reader may now observe why the pole is held with the · hand– grip, £.e. one over and one under, already described. At this stage the hands are the lowest part of the jumper's anatomy, and the pit of the stomach is above the bar. The body is now like an inverted "V" 4 (sketch s), the hands on the pole forming one of the points of the A and the feet the other, the apex is formed by the jumper's stern. The chest has been lifted above the level of the cross-bar by the downward pressure of the hands, and to keep the abdomen from knocking down ·the bar the feet have been dropped on the far side, thus making the body concave so that the bar lies in the hollow of the stomach. At the last second, and when the athlete feels that he has lifted his body up to the limit of his reach, 8