Walker's manly exercises: Containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports — John Shaqi
Walker's manly exercises: Containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sportsWalker, Donald
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Walker's manly exercises: Containing rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports
Walker, Donald
Athletics; Sports
2nd. Commencing from the same position, the ends of both clubs are
swung upward until they are held, vertically and side by side, at arm’s
length in front of the body, the hands being as high as the shoulders
(Plate II. fig. 4); they are next carried in the same position, at
arm’s length, and on the same level, as far backward as possible (Plate
II. fig. 5); each is then dropped backward until it hangs vertically
downward (Plate II. fig. 6); and this exercise ends as the first.
Previous, however, to dropping the clubs backward, it greatly improves
this exercise, by a turn of the wrist upward and backward, to carry the
clubs into a horizontal position behind the shoulders, so that, if long
enough, their ends would touch (Plate III. fig. 1); next, by a turn
of the wrist outward and downward, to carry them horizontally outward
(Plate III. fig. 2); then by a turn of the wrist upward and forward,
to carry them into a horizontal position before the breast (Plate III.
fig. 3); again to carry them horizontally outward; and finally to drop
them backward as already explained; and thence to the first position.
All this is also done slowly.
3rd. The clubs are to be swung by the sides, first separately, and then
together, exactly as the hands were in the last extension motion.
THE NEW AND MORE BEAUTIFUL PORTION NOW ADDED FROM THE INDIAN PRACTICE.
1st. A club is held forward and upright in each hand, the fore-arm
being placed horizontally, by the haunch on each side (Plate IV. fig.
1); both are thrown in a circle upward, forward, and, by a turn of the
wrist, downward and backward, so as to strike under the arms (Plate
IV. fig. 2); by an opposite movement, both are thrown back again in a
similar circle, till they swing over the shoulders (Plate IV. fig. 3);
and this movement is continued as long as agreeable.
2nd. The clubs are held obliquely upward in each hand, lying on the
front of the arms (Plate IV. fig. 4); that in the right hand is allowed
to fall backward (Plate IV. fig. 5), and swings downward, forward to
the extent of the arm, and as high as the head (Plate IV. fig. 6);
the moment this club begins to return from this point, in precisely
the same direction, to the front of the arm, that in the left hand is
allowed to drop backward, and to perform the advancing portion of this
course in the time that the other performs the returning portion, so
that each is at the same time swinging in an opposite direction.
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