The complete athletic trainer (1913) (14596241518)

Track tactics in relay running: correct and incorrect positions of the awaiting runners in a relay to take the stick. The old stationary start, now superseded by a run up to the starting point, so as to be on the move when the preceding runner arrives
Identifier: completeathletic00muss (find matches)
Title: The complete athletic trainer
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Mussabini, S. A Ranson, Charles
Subjects: Athletics Physical education and training
Publisher: London, Methuen & co. ltd
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library



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howing a relay race in progress andone of the runners awaiting the flag is actuallyturned in a back-handed way to take it in hisleft hand. Whether the carrier is bringing itin his right hand, and therefore on the wrong sideof the next runner, one cannot say. If so, thereis a double fault. The runner on the insideedge of the track is, however, doing his workcorrectly, so is the man who is just about tohand him the flag. There will be, at least, 2 or3 yards (a long distance to lose or win by)difference between the positions of the two menin starting away from their marks. Of course the proper tactics to pursue inall racing classes is for the awaiting runner notto stand fast-footed but to stay some 20 yardsbehind the mark he has to start from and, gettinginto his running, take the flag a few yardsshort of there, while nicely on the move. Thismeans the difference of a flying as against astanding start. It is the American fashion,which has brisked up the relay time records atall distances.
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TRUE TRAINING METHODS IF one describes an experienced, intelligenttrainer of athletes as part practitioner, partdoctor, and part student of nature, the out-lines of his functions will have been truly set forth.He is the man who can select the raw materialand properly train it in the right way in any ofthe several and differing departments of athletics.His aptitude must be backed by the common-sense that comes with years of practice in hiscraft. Preferably, he should be of middle age,and he should have gone through the mill him-self. This is, indeed, an essential quahficationas regards sprint-running, and, perhaps, jumpsand hurdhng. There is no doubt about thesprinting, however. The tearaway dashes from100 to 300 yards are the concentrated essence ofrunning ; and those who have figured to theutmost advantage in them have been cultivatedproducts. Top speed is the most dil^icult ofattainment in all games of skill, from golf andbilliards to cricket and boxing, where one has tokeep in good