This alternate motion of the legs will take place by throwing the weight of the body on the foot that is planted, and by allowing a natural, oscillatory motion to the arms. The cadence of this step may be increased to more than one hundred and eighty per minute, thus forming an exercise in running, the only difference consisting in a greater degree of swiftness. In executing the movements of this Series, the students should breathe through the nose, keeping the mouth closed. IX. COMBINED EXERCISES. FIRST SERIES. First Position. No 244. Thus far, in Calisthenics, we have given one hundred and thirty elementary positions, and two hundred and fifty classes of movements, which require about seven thousand separate motions in their execution. While the rule of Permutation is not strictly applicable in determining the number of combinations that may be formed from these elementary positions and movements, it is suluciently so to prove that they are almost innumerable. After the elementary movements are mastered, combined ones may be executed without previous practice, simply by employing appropriate words of command. The few examples that follow are designed to illustrate the mode of forming these exercises, both by a combination of two or more elementary movements, and by the combined efforts of two students. The ingenious instructor will not find it difficult to form hundreds of new combinations in like manner. No. 245.-The instructor will command: 1. Combined Exercises; 2. First Series; 3. Chest Exercise with Charges; 4. First— POSITION. No. 246.-At the fourth command, the student will take the position of Fig. 116.-Execute the movements of this position to the Music on p. 189. No. 247.-First Movements-RIGHT. At this command, the student will charge to the right, as represented by the dotted part of Fig. 116, at the same time describing an arc with the right arm to the right, inclining down at an angle of 45 degrees, terminating as represented by the dotted arm A, and recover the commencing position four times; then, at the command, LEFT, four corresponding combined outward motions will be made to the left; and finally, at the command, ALTERNATE, eight of these motions from the commencing position will be made to the right and the left by alternation. No. 248.-Second and Third Movements. These two classes of movements only differ from No. 247 in the directions of the motions from the chest, those of the second being directly out to the sides, as shown by the dotted arm в, and those of the third sidewise and up, as represented by the dotted arm c. Second Position. No. 249. At the command, Second-POSITION, the student will take the position of Fig. 117, as described in No. 7, p. 138.-Execute the movements of this position to the Music on p. 190. No. 250.--First, Second, and Third Movements. The remaining commands, and the number and order of motions of these three classes of movements, are the same as those of the first position; but the charges and arm motions are made directly front, the right arm and left leg first, as represented by the dotted part of Fig. 117, the first class of arm movements being made directly down; the second, directly front; and the third, directly up. Third Position. No. 251.-At the command, Third-POSITION, the student will take the position of Fig. 118; see, also, Fig. 15.-Use Part Fourth, p. 208, in connection with the movements of this position. No. 252. First, Second, and Third Movements. These movements only differ from those of the First Position in having the charges made to the front, inclining to the right and the left at an angle of 45 degrees, see Fig. 118, the first class of arm movements from this position being made front and down, at an angle of 45 degrees; the second, directly front; and the third, front and up, at an angle of 45 degrees; see, also, dotted arms of Fig. 15. Fourth Position. No. 253. At the command, Fourth-POSITION, the student will take the position of Fig. 119; see, also, Fig. 16.-Use Part Fifth, p. 208, with the following class of movements. No. 254.-First Movements-RIGHT. The remaining commands, and the number, order, and direction of the charges of the first and only class of movements from this position, are the same as in No. 233; but in every charge and facing to the right, the right arm is carried front and up at an angle of 45 degrees, and the left arm back and down at the same angle, as represented in the dotted part of Fig. 119. In charging and facing to the left, in like manner the left arm is carried front and up, and the right one back and down. SECOND SERIES. First Position. No. 255.-The instructor will command: 1. Combined Exercises; 2. Second Series; 3. Chest Exercise with Marching; 4. First-POSITION. No. 256. At the fourth command, the student will take the position of Fig. 120; see, also, No. 2. No. 257.-First, Second, and Third Movements. The first class of movements from the chest is made down and back, at an angle of 45 degrees, as represented by the dotted arm A, Fig. 120; the second, directly out and back horizontally, as shown by the dotted arm B; the third, in the direction of the dotted arm c. The remain ing commands, and the num B A C FIG. 120. |