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| Pusheup Dips Get down on all fours with the body extended parallel to

the floor and with fingers and toes supporting the body. Without letting the
abdomen, chest, or thighs touch the floor, execute a full dipe ‘Then push up and
dip againe Without allowing the hips to sag, repeat this exercise twelve times.

Pull Squat Dip. Stand in upright position. With arms extended later~
ally to perfect the body balance, extend the right leg to the front and sink
slowly on the left foot to a full squat. Without touching the floor with the
hands or with the extended leg. put entire weight on left leg and thigh, and
depend upon the strength of the Ineo and the hip joints to bring the body again to
an upright position. Finish with a rising slips Repeat this exercise, three
times on each leg, twice dailye |

All these setting-up exercises should be slowly stretched through,
quite after the mamer of a contented cat before a fires Plenty of stretching

Nothing is better than open-handed boxing for the develomment of timing,
footwork agility, body weave, and quick chenge of pace. Boxing teaches the
follow-through more readily than any other sport. Its quick emphatic changes
fron offense to defense are comparable to basketball movements, A clever basket~
ball player is generally a fine boxer. Footwork, headwork, and hendwork are the
prime essentials of both sports. In shooting or in guarding too few players are
loose enough in their hipse Too few bend their Imees sufficiently; they stand
straight up and lock their Imees.

- monony of @ifense is best emlasized wy the toxer's stances ‘The boxer
gives ground grudgingly as he similates the movenents of the ape mine Also, he
springs quickly forward to the offense, ready to take every physical advantage
to be gained through alertness and agilitye

Boxing develops every fimdamental movement vital to basketball. There