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RING AND BALL LIFTING

Stand with the bali between the feet, tbe handle of same to be hołd as shown in photograph, describing body press and ring weight lift. Place the left hand on the knee and swing to the back, after which swing overhead as in the dttmb-bell swing, but when the weight is three parts up. suddenly step forward with the right foot and twist the riglu hand and wrist round so that the globe falls on the fleshy part of the right forearm. Of course. the heli, if heavy. may be lifted to the shouldcr with a similar ntovcinent and then pressed aloft. In juggling with kettlc balls or ring weights, the simplest manner to describe the ordinary titm-over is to say that the way which would occttr to your ntind is the incorrect one. It is a strangc thing. hut in weight-lifting, in 9 cases out of every 10, if not in 99 cases out of cvcry 100, the position which the man in the Street, quite innocent of all knowledge pertaining to weights, would take, if asked to lift a weight in any position, is always the wrong one. This shows what a science there is in weiglu-lifling when properly understood. 1i you wislt to juggle with the beli. take it in the hand with the handle parallel to your body. and instead of pulling the handle ovcr and down towards you, press it down and over mcay front you, first lifting it as high as the shoulder, and then giving it a viciotts tum in the position I Itace referrcd to, and as the handle comes up again your hand will readily grasp it, or if not it will fali to the iloor without doing damagc. With practice it ma)' be turned over twice or even three limes before you endeacor to catclt it, and it may be thrown behind you to return over your right shoulder and be caught before it rcaches the floor.

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