Six horses were stationed side by side in the ring before a spring-board, and the whole company of gymnasts ran and turned somersaults from the spring over the horses, alighting on a mattress spread on the ground.
The ring attendants and two or threegymnasts rushed to him and took him up.
Having purchased my costume and seen as much of the bazaar as I cared to, I returned to Tiflis proper, and here the streets were fast filling with the gymnasts returning from school.
In the whole of my stay amongst them, my night’s rest was never broken by the antics of insect gymnasts or the attacks of burlier foes.
All gymnastspractise regularly for two hours or more every day.
Never once, not even at Chicago, in the perilous toe swing, when even the other gymnasts told her she would certainly be killed.
During our absence the impresario happened along and asked: 'Are those Spanish gymnasts going to perform at such a height?
A few days we lived on guava-fruit and yam, until we fell in with some gymnasts on the Havana wharf who were down on their uppers.
But othergymnasts came to the Empress Circus; the novelty of our act wore off, and the impresario, a Yankee who owned several companies, asked Pérez and me if we wanted to go to Cuba.
There are very few gymnasts who can do it properly, which is not to be wondered at, considering the amount of practice that it involves.
Many gymnasts approve of it, and assert that it affords them support; but our view, in which we are confirmed by medical authority, is that artificial support should be avoided.
We cannot too strongly advise our young friends who wish to become gymnasts to pay particular attention to the style in which they perform the exercises.
Suppose the ordinary sorts of apparatus were there, but made with great care, and of the proportions skilled gymnasts have found most suitable.
Some gymnasts can do this several times with the little finger.
But nobody bought the old careworn human beings, riders andgymnasts and stable hands who crept away into the bright free air of France, dazed and lost, like the prisoners released from the Bastille.
Now and then, rare passers through from the outer world, gymnasts down on their luck, glad to take a makeshift engagement while waiting for better things, had counselled him to leave the antiquated concern.
Not exactly novelties, either, for they are known to most gymnasts though not often done in a circus.
Jim Tracy, hurrying over to where the threegymnasts stood.
A few of the other gymnasts openly declared that the Lascalla Brothers were getting altogether too much public attention.
After the repast the gymnasts gave a display of their agility for the benefit of the astonished natives.
He himself was a most loyal subject, but it was the fashion among his long-haired, bare-necked gymnasts with the unbleached linen jackets to jeer at the army, especially at the dandy officers of the guard.
One of the finest gymnasts in the country told me that in several attempts to lift five hundred pounds he failed, and that he should never try it again.
In the new system there is opportunity for all the strength, flexibility, and skill which the most advanced gymnasts possess, with the priceless advantage that the two sexes may mingle in the scene with equal pleasure and profit.
Physiologists and gymnasts have everywhere bestowed upon them the most unqualified commendation.
They witness the wonderful performances of accomplished gymnasts and acrobates, admire the brilliant feats; but the girls see no opportunity for themselves.
On the contrary, I am exceedingly grateful to this class of gymnasts for their noble illustration of the possibilities in one department of physical development.
No objection, however, could be taken to those who sought to restrain the enterprise of managers who engaged women gymnasts to perform dangerous feats.
Modern gymnasts admire their fellow-workers in their [p271] dangerous performances with equal enthusiasm.
They enable several gymnasts to appear together, and thus give [p260] the artists breathing-time whilst their companions perform their share of the entertainment.
I know promising gymnasts whose pallid complexions show that their blood is not worthy of their muscle, and they will break down.
It is this predominance of the nervous temperament which is yet destined to make American gymnasts the foremost in the world.
There was a buzz of horror from the spectators as two of the gymnastsran in with a stretcher and hastily removed him.
Next a tight-rope was fixed, and two lady gymnasts in spangled garments and holding parasols walked across it, and even danced upon it, shaking bells on their ankles as they moved.
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