The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 629
i.e., of feel in the grip. 232 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. Whichever hand is upwards, that foot corresponding shouldbe advanced in the spring, and the pole should pass during theppring on the same side of the body as the lower hand. Injumping width, the body should spring with the feet leading, behind,… … and as it descends the pole should leave the ground, remainingin the grasp and return to its normal position of rest at rightangles to the body. In jumping height, the legs should, after leaving the ground,swing round straight out and rigid, till at the highest point thebody lies almost horizontal…
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