Gymnastics and rope climbing by Stoll Robert

Author:Stoll, Robert. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Gymnastics, Acrobatics
Publisher: New York, American sports publishing company
Published: 1916-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

GTIVINASTICS.

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Another method of doing it is to grasp the bar, and, springing up, carry the legs and body over the second, and giving the spring with the arms directly, go over the other without any apparant pause; this would be the more easily done were the gymnast to raise his legs well up in carrying them over, which, with the after spring, would after a little practice enable it to be done without touching, or at least but very little, the other bar.

The whole of the body must pass freel y between the bars and over the second, and on no account is any part of it to be turned on one side while achieving this exercise, which causes the spine to bend freely, but many a young gymnast abandons it, owing to that action giving him some reason to think it hurts him; yet, after having

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