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Identifier: athletictraining00orto (find matches)
Title: Athletic training for school boys
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Orton, George W., b. 1873, ed
Subjects: Athletics
Publisher: New York, American Sports Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s running between tl;ehurdles. The forward leg should be thrown over the hurdleand at the same time the body should be thrown forward. Theaim of the athlete should be to get his forward foot to theground as soon as possible and the body will be of the greatestbenefit in aiding the hurdler to get down to earth quickly. Inother words, the hurdler should not hang in the air, but theleg should be thrown smartly over the hurdle. The athleteshould not try to get distance on the other side. It will be found,however, that the hurdler does get almost as much distance onthe other side as in the old glide style, due to the force withwhich the body is thrown forward. The rear leg should bebrought up quickly, the idea being to have this leg in its accus-tomed position for sprinting when the forward leg touches theearth. In other words, when the athlete reaches the ground histwo legs should be in the same relative position as they wouldbe if no hurdle had been jumped. The tendency, of course, is to
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THE SHOT PUT. FIG. 3. Rollins of Amherst. The athlete is moving across the circle. He isgetting a little too high in the air. Spaldings Athletic Library. 6i drag the rear leg, for it requires no little exertion, both of legand body and arms, to get the rear leg up fast enough so that itwill be in its natural position for striding out just as soon asthe ground is reached on the other side of the hurdle. Threestrides should be taken between the hurdles. It is unnecessaryto state the hurdle should be cleared as closely as possible. Somehurdlers wear a shin and ankle pad in practice, so that they cangraze each hurdle. The hurdler should practice until he gets the exact distancebetween the hurdles in his stride so that he will always takeoff at the same distance from the hurdle. Otherwise, at eachhurdle the athlete will be either a little further away or a littlenearer the hurdle and before the last hurdle is reached he willbe out of his stride, and this always means a great decrease inspe

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