2nd. Commencing from the same position, the ends of both clubs are swung upward until they are held, vertically and side by side, at arm’s length in front of the body, the hands being as high as the shoulders ([Plate II.] fig. 4); they are next carried in the same position, at arm’s length, and on the same level, as far backward as possible ([Plate II.] fig. 5); each is then dropped backward until it hangs vertically downward ([Plate II.] fig. 6); and this exercise ends as the first. Previous, however, to dropping the clubs backward, it greatly improves this exercise, by a turn of the wrist upward and backward, to carry the clubs into a horizontal position behind the shoulders, so that, if long enough, their ends would touch ([Plate III.] fig. 1); next, by a turn of the wrist outward and downward, to carry them horizontally outward ([Plate III.] fig. 2); then by a turn of the wrist upward and forward, to carry them into a horizontal position before the breast ([Plate III.] fig. 3); again to carry them horizontally outward; and finally to drop them backward as already explained; and thence to the first position. All this is also done slowly.
3rd. The clubs are to be swung by the sides, first separately, and then together, exactly as the hands were in the last extension motion.
THE NEW AND MORE BEAUTIFUL PORTION NOW ADDED FROM THE INDIAN PRACTICE.
1st. A club is held forward and upright in each hand, the fore-arm being placed horizontally, by the haunch on each side ([Plate IV.] fig. 1); both are thrown in a circle upward, forward, and, by a turn of the wrist, downward and backward, so as to strike under the arms ([Plate IV.] fig. 2); by an opposite movement, both are thrown back again in a similar circle, till they swing over the shoulders ([Plate IV.] fig. 3); and this movement is continued as long as agreeable.
2nd. The clubs are held obliquely upward in each hand, lying on the front of the arms ([Plate IV.] fig. 4); that in the right hand is allowed to fall backward ([Plate IV.] fig. 5), and swings downward, forward to the extent of the arm, and as high as the head ([Plate IV.] fig. 6); the moment this club begins to return from this point, in precisely the same direction, to the front of the arm, that in the left hand is allowed to drop backward, and to perform the advancing portion of this course in the time that the other performs the returning portion, so that each is at the same time swinging in an opposite direction.
3rd. From either of the first positions now given, the clubs are, by a turn of the body and extension of the arms, thrown upwards and laterally ([Plate V.] fig. 1);—make, at the extent of the arms, and in front of the figure, a circle in which they sweep downward by the feet and upward over the head ([Plate V.] fig. 2), and fall in a more limited curve towards the side on which they began ([Plate V.] fig. 3), in such a manner that the outer one forming a circle around the shoulder and the inner one round the head, (both passing swiftly through the position in the last figure of the first exercise,) they return to the first position;—this is repeated to the other side;—and so on alternately.
4th. Beginning from either first position, the body being turned laterally,—for example, to the left, the club in the right hand is thrown upward in that direction at the full extent of the arm ([Plate VI.] fig. 1), and makes the large circle in front and curve behind as in the last exercise ([Plate VI.] fig. 2), while the club in the left hand makes at the same time a smaller circle in front of the head and behind the shoulders ([Plate VI.] figs. 1, 2, and 3), until crossing each other before the head (rather on the right side), their movements are exactly reversed, the club in the right hand performing the small circle round the head, while that in the left performs the large one,—and these continue to be repeated to each side alternately.
Plate V
