Calisthenics and light gymnastics for home and school

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...in front of A B C D; they then pass through the same intervals, and turning sharply, pass around A and come once more in front. When this has been done five or ten times (according to the space at disposal), the sections change in the movements. To do this exercise with one section, there must not be less than seven persons, and not more than from twenty to twenty-four; and they must be divided in such a way that those who advance straight on, should consist of one more than the others, that there may be an interval for each of the twos. That the interval passage may be done uniformly, the ones must, for a few seconds, Mark Time with their feet, while the others run round and come in front. This signifies that the feet are alternately lifted in time without moving from the spot. PART IX. FAN DRILL HE attractiveness of such a drill as the following, depends entirely upon unity of action on the part of the pupils. A movement, no matter how unimportant in itself, becomes worth looking at when performed by a number of pupils in perfect unison. The following programme and directions for a drill with fans may be much varied, according to the taste of the teacher, who should, however, use only such pupils as have proved themselves proficient in the previous exercises. The Fans. Purchase, say, forty fans, or any number which can be divided by four. If forty are bought divide them into four tens of different colors,--for instance, ten in which red is Fig. 123. Mav also be performed with tambourines or tennis-rackets. the predominating color; ten, yellow; ten, blue; and ten, white; or any other colors according to taste. Hand the fans to the pupils, who on exhibition occasions should likewise be dressed in colors to match the fans (that is, each ten pupils in a diffe...