Physical Training For Children - By Japanese methods: a manual for use in schools and at home E-Book

H. Irving Hancock

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Beschreibung

These pages are addressed directly to those who have in charge the physical training of children, and it is urged that the subject matter be read through to the pupils themselves. Yet it has been the aim of the author to make the contents of this volume so plain and simple that the boy or girl of reasoning years will find it possible to instruct himself or herself and a companion. Why should the Japanese physical training system, Jiu-jitsu, be taught to our young people? The answer is a ready one, and easy of comprehension by one who has had even the most ordinary opportunities for witnessing the feats of strength and endurance of Japanese athletes. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. Why Physical Exercise is Needed if One is to be Healthy. The Japanese System of Training the Body—What is Meant by " Resistant Muscle" Work— The First Feats to Undertake CHAPTER II. The "Straggle" in its Varied Forms . CHAPTER III. The Need of Light Exercise in Alternation with the Heavier—Sample Work of the Lighter Kind CHAPTER IV. The Pole Work CHAPTER V. Tug-of War Drills CHAPTER VI. Strengthening the Back CHAPTER VII. Deep Breathing, Food, Bathing and Clothing—How Alcohol and Tobacco Ruin the Health and Spoil the Athlete CHAPTER VIII. Feats for Rapidly Strengthening the Whole Body of the Advanced Student CHAPTER IX. More about Resistance of Muscles—Exercises that Employ it to the Utmost—Summer Out-Door Sports CHAPTER X. Muscle-Bound American Athletes—Mistakes that the Japanese Avoid—Last Words to Pupils.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I.

Why Physical Exercise is Needed if One is to be Healthy. The Japanese System of Training the Body—What is Meant by " Resistant Muscle" Work— The First Feats to Undertake

CHAPTER II.

The "Straggle" in its Varied Forms .

CHAPTER III.

The Need of Light Exercise in Alternation with the Heavier—Sample Work of the Lighter Kind

CHAPTER IV.

The Pole Work

CHAPTER V.

Tug-of War Drills

CHAPTER VI.

Strengthening the Back

CHAPTER VII.

Deep Breathing, Food, Bathing and Clothing—How Alcohol and Tobacco Ruin the Health and Spoil the Athlete

CHAPTER VIII.

Feats for Rapidly Strengthening the Whole Body of the Advanced Student

CHAPTER IX.

More about Resistance of Muscles—Exercises that Employ it to the Utmost—Summer Out-Door Sports

CHAPTER X.

Muscle-Bound American Athletes—Mistakes that the Japanese Avoid—Last Words to Pupils.

Physical Training For Children

BY JAPANESE METHODS: A MANUAL FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND AT HOME

BY

H. Irving Hancock

New York and London 1904

1st digital edition 2016 by David De Angelis

INTRODUCTION

THESE few pages are addressed directly to those who have in charge the physical training of children, and it is urged that the subject matter be read through to the pupils themselves. Yet it has been the aim of the author to make the contents of this volume so plain and simple that the boy or girl of reasoning years will find it possible to instruct himself or herself and a companion.

Why should the Japanese physical training system, jiu-jitsu, be taught to our young people? The answer is a ready one, and easy of comprehension by one who has had even the most ordinary opportunities for witnessing the feats of strength and endurance of Japanese athletes. Travellers have brought us, from time to time, wonderful tales—and none of them exaggerated—of the strange and marvellous system of gymnastics in vogue among the people of Japan. Some eight years ago the author began his study of Jiu jitsu under the guidance of Japanese friends in this country. Afterwards, in japan, he studied under such famous adepts as Matsuda, Yako, and Inouye—a redoubtable triumvirate of muscle-trainers. Upon his return from Japan the author went again under Inouye's tutelage when that master came to this country for a while to lecture and to teach. Six weeks of instruction the preliminary (strength-producing training of Jiu jitsu will yield better results in muscle, endurance, and agility than will the same amount of time per week spent in a gymnasium throughout a whole school year. And the same six weeks of drilling infrejitsu exercises will accomplish more than may be looked for from years spent at the light calisthenics taught in many of our schools.'

If this should seem to be an extravagant claim, let us examine some facts of very recent history. In Japan every soldier, sailor, and policeman is obliged to take the government course in Jiu jitsu. When the allied armies of the civilised powers marched against Pekin in the summer of 'goo it was discovered that the soldiers of our regular army were second among all the troops in point of endurance in the field. But the Japanese were first, and proved their ability, day after day, to out-march our troops by fifty per cent. Through the earlier weeks of hostilities with Russia, in this year, Japanese troops marched twenty-five miles a day through the most bitter weather. Under the same circumstances our soldiers would consider fifteen miles a day a satisfactory average. As jiu-jitsu is the only physical training that the Japanese soldier receives it is evident that it is this system which gives him the greatest endurance to be found in the world.

k The course laid down in this volume is intended to take up a school year. The feats should all of them be mastered thoroughly in less time than that, but it is advantageous to have considerable time to spend in reviewing the work .\ The amount of time spent in physical training during the week varies greatly in the schools. It is well worth the while to give from twenty minutes to a half an hour daily, but where this is impossible it is advised to give at least twenty minutes a day on three days in the week This amount of time spent in instruction can be made to suffice if the pupils can be persuaded to practise out of school hours. And much can be done in the way of urging the young people to try the feats in recess time.

Necessarily many of the feats described cannot be performed in the aisles between the desks. But this need be no bar to thorough training in Jiu jitsu. Nearly every large school building has a hall in which graduating exercises- and other exhibitions are given. This hall can be used by the class when training. School buildings of any size have basements that are used as indoor playgrounds in stormy weather, and here the exercises may be taught. There is plenty of space also in the broad corridors. Best of all, in the milder weather—that is, in September and October and in May and June, the young people can be marched into the school yard and there drilled to the best advantage of all in the purer out-door air.

The especial attention of the physical instructor or class teacher is directed to Chapter III., in which are given several forms of exercises that will be found of great value to children who are too weakly to enter at once into the more rigorous exercises taken up by their stronger schoolmates. Chapters VII. and X. are intended by way of brief lectures for occasional reading to the class.

As soon as one set of exercises has been mastered, and a new set taken up, it is not intended that the old feats be abandoned. On the contrary in each practice bout some of the old movements should be taken up along with the new, giving a continuous review of all the work that has been mastered. It is suggested that the instructor will find it an excellent idea to number each of the drills in the order in which they are described. A marginal note stating the average amount of time required for a movement will be of great assistance in making a selection of the old exercises that are to be taken up with the new.

There are no separate exercises for boys or girls. Both boys and girls have posed for the illustrations published herewith, but this was done merely in order to lend greater interest to the depiction of the work.

It is highly undesirable that the Jiu jitsu training should be dropped from the school course after one year of drilling. On the contrary, it should be kept up as long as the boy or girl remains at school, should be carried into the college or university, and then onward throughout life. But,: after the first year of training, the student has the advantage of understanding the system, and of being able to skip about among the exercises as his inclination and his own bodily needs suggest.'

Since it is likely that the term Jiu jitsu will be heard more and more in this country as time goes on, a hint is offered as to its pronunciation. It is natural to say " Jiu jitsu" but the Japanese call it Jiu jitsu. The accent is on the first syllable. The double "s" is given with a slight hissing sound, and the final "u" is not expressed at all.

H. IRVING HANCOCK.

NEW YORK, April 9, 1904.

CHAPTER I

WHY PHYSICAL EXERCISE IS NEEDED IF ONE IS TO BE HEALTHY—THE JAPANESE SYSTEM OF TRAINING THE BODY—WHAT IS MEANT BY "RESISTANT MUSCLE" WORK THE FIRST FEATS TO UNDERTAKE