. St. Nicholas [serial]. d on the floor. Curvethe body as much as you can and keep the head well up.(See handstand in illustration i6.) After you get the balance against the wall, push awayan inch or so with your heels and hold the balance. Dothis two or three times night and morning, and in a fewweeks you can do it on the mat without any one to helpyou. Then you can begin, little by little, to walk onyour hands. Always come down from the handstand onthe mat by ducking your head and doing a roll. HANDWALKING. To practise this, use the trickcalled the Wheelbarrow. (Illustration 6.) Let halfthe
. St. Nicholas [serial]. d on the floor. Curvethe body as much as you can and keep the head well up.(See handstand in illustration i6.) After you get the balance against the wall, push awayan inch or so with your heels and hold the balance. Dothis two or three times night and morning, and in a fewweeks you can do it on the mat without any one to helpyou. Then you can begin, little by little, to walk onyour hands. Always come down from the handstand onthe mat by ducking your head and doing a roll. HANDWALKING. To practise this, use the trickcalled the Wheelbarrow. (Illustration 6.) Let halfthe class stand on their hands, and the other half takethe feet of the first half on their shoulders. The fourdoubles walk in file from the stage steps to the mat, andup and down the strong little handwalking double stair-case of two treads on each side, each step being fourinches high, eight wide, and sixteen long. After comingdown the staircase, each pair do a roll, finishing withthe second salute. PHYSICAL TRAINING [ 13. A PYRAMID—THE PATH TO THE STARS. DOUBLE WORK. The first thing to teach in doublework is the shoulder-mount. Take the topmountershands as shown in illustration 7. He places the rightfoot on your bent right leg as near the body as he can(illustration 8). Pull him up, and he can place theother foot up on your left shoulder (illustration 9). Hethen draws up the right foot to your right shoulder, andstands erect, steadying himself by pressing his legsagainst the sides of your head. You, the iniderstander,then drop the topmounters hands and hold his legstightly against your head, grasping them just below theknees. Both stand straight as in illustration 10. Thetopmounter must hold his head up, fold his arms, andsmile—always practise smiling. At first the topmounteris wobbly and walks all over your neck—he is so the topmounter loses his balance (there must alwaysbe some one placed behind to watch and catch him atfirst), the understander should lean
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