Two Steps ty’d together at the Heads, shew they are both to move at once, which can only be perform’d by springing, which I shall hereafter call a starting Step.
These kind of starting Steps, may be practis’d two ways, viz. with both Knees stiff, or falling with the Knees bent.
The first of these needs no other Mark for Direction, but the sliding Mark; but the other must have the sliding and falling Marks together.
| To Spring with both Feet open at once. | With one Foot forwards, and the other backwards, both
at once. |
| A starting Step, with both Feet open, the Knees stiff. | A starting Step, one Foot forwards, the other backwards,
the Knees stiff. |
| A starting Step, with both Feet open, and falling with
both Knees bent. | The same, one Foot backwards, the other forwards. |
Of waving Positions, and half Positions.
A
Waving Position,
or half
Position,
is when the Foot