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Pusheup Dip. 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 dips ‘Then push up end
dip again. Without allowing the hips to sag, repeat this exercise twelve times.

Full Squat Dip. Stand in upright position. With arms extended later-
ally to perfect the body balence, extend the right leg to the front and sink
slowly on the left foot to a full squat. Without touching the floor with the
hends or with the extended leg. put entire weight on left leg and thigh, end
depend upon the strength of the lmee and the hip joints to bring the body again to
an upright position. Finish with a rising skipe Repeat this exercise, three
times on each leg, twice daily.

All these setting-up exercises should be slowly stretched through,
quite after the manner of a contented cat before a fire. Plenty of stretching
keeps the spine supple and the body youthfule

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Nothing is better ‘aios open=handed boxing for the development of timing,
Seuteeeth agility, body weave, and quick change of pace. Boxing teaches the
follow-through more readily than any other sport. Its quick emphatic changes
from offense to defense are comparable to basketball movements. A clever basket~
ball player is generally a fine boxer. Footwork, headwork, and handwork 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 Ikmees sufficiently; they stand
straight up and lock their Imees.

Economy of détense is best emphasized by the boxer's stancee The boxer
gives oink nities We he simulates the movements of the ape mane Also, he
springs quickly forward to the offense, ready to take every physical advantage
to be gained through alertness and agility.

Boxing develops every fundamental movement vital to basketball. There