Training of the body for games, athletics, gymnastics, and other forms of exercise

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of each portion of the body. These must be acquired quite
separately.
Another 'part' might be Breathing. This also has to be
acquired separately. One has to know how to breathe, and
when to breathe in, and when to breathe out.
Both these, the right Position of the body for equilibrium
etc., and the right way of Breathing, can be practised quite
separately and independently. But it is not this that we will
consider here. We will rather speak of the different 'parts'
of the Movements, in the more ordinary sense of the word
movements'.
When a person is young, he or she should get a good stock
of as many
Simple Movements
as possible. At first only ` the
coarser possibilities', as they may be called, need be con-
sidered. A certain number of the commonest movements for
each part of the body should be very thoroughly mastered, and
this should be one of the objects of an all-round
Education.
One of them is explained on p.
12.
A large number of simple
types of movements should become quite familiar, and then
they will be ready whenever they are wanted.
It will be far easier to combine these together into any
required action of a complicated kind, when each part has al
ready become easy by itself. This new combination of old and
familiar Movements will enable the beginner at any Exercise
or Game immediately to start with a very great advantage, and
the Practice which he will have had will have improved his
general faculty of Practice. The training in these initial Move-
ments will therefore be the very best training for almost any
form of Game or Exercise which may be taken up afterwards.
And now as to the system of treating any
one Part
of a move-
ment. First of all, after the right
Position,
should come the
Foundation-Movements.
Let us suppose that one of these is
thoroughly understood, and that it has been done once or
twice quite correctly.
Later on it will be pointed out that you may find out the cor-
rect Movement, partly by the help of Anatomy and Physiology,
and partly by watching the correct performance of the move-
ment when it is done very slowly, and partly by Photographs,
and partly by listening to advice, and again partly by personal
experiments.