The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 394
Horizontal Bar.Fig:. 5- various sitting straight and thebody erect, andthe swing shouldbe begun withsufficient impe-tus to carry thebody entirelyaround the bar.In this move-ment the left legis kept well fixedand the bar restsat about the mid-dle of the thigh.The learnermay now throwthe right leg… … Horizontal Bar.—Fig. 6.swings, backward (Figs. 6-y) andforward (Figs. 8-9), should nowbe tried. Theseare more difficultthan the swingsjust described,because theweight is thrownentirely on thearms, exceptwhen the gym-nast is above thebar, whereas be-fore he hung onone leg. The sit-ting swings…
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