Success in Athletics and how to obtain it

SHOT-PUTTING 175 not be more than three-quarters way across when it lands ; but they must be wrong; for if the athlete lands in this way, he has to expend some of his right leg-drive (the next movement) in getting the body fairly over to the other side of the circle, instead of being able to get all his energies into the reverse and the delivery of the shot-the power for which, by the way, should travel from the toes right through to the fingers. Our contention is that the athlete should use up all the circle in the initial spring, as proof of which we would point out that in Scotland-where they know a good deal more than a little about the game-it is no unusual thing to hear two loud smacks, one close on top of the otper; the first is the left foot coming hard against the toe-board at the end of the spring, and the second is the right foot hitting it at the end of the reverse. As will be readily understood, the extent of the movement of the left leg is greater than that of the right, but also it is quicker. Taking our assumption with regard to style as being correct, the athlete lands firmly on both feet from his initial spring and the left foot is well up by the toe-board. Now comes the point at which two distinct efforts must be knit together so smoothly that they appear only to be one. As the athlete lands, he should have his body to the direction in which the " put" is going to be made ; instantly he bends both knees and swings the right shoulder around to the rear (sketch 3, p. 171) so that he may get a powerful swing into the reverse which is about ·to be made. From the third photo of R. S. Woods (fig. 69), and