The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 630
ding, and is taking the lower position, if the exercise is practised to anygreat extent, so that the body may not acquire any one-sideddevelopment. The exercise verges very nearly upon athleticsports, and by many is classed with them, in contradistinctionto gymnastics. At Lillie Bridge it takes its… … the first to leave the ground in the spring. The eye should,during the run, be fixed steadfastly upon the obstacle to bejumped, and the eye will in time learn to discover the distancefor the take-off, and the step will time itself, so that the properfoot is ready to take-off in the proper place.…
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