ARMY’S NEW "SHUN!”
POKER-LIKE STATUES NO LONGER The Army no longer stands with expanded chest and hollow back. Instead has tho lithe and supplo limbs of an athlete. This has been achieved by an entirely new system of training. Barrack square drill, which taught men to move like automatons, has been superseded by a scientific system of (raining. “Wo no longer aim at turning a recruit into a still, pokcr-bko statute,” mid an Army physical training expert at the Royal Tournament at Olympia, W., to a ‘Sunday Express’ representative. “Wo aim at a natural carriage, because tins is the road to complete health. “ When a recruit comes into our ham's his individuality and his bodily characteristics aro studied. Vlicn he is put through a series of easy,. progressive crcrdses which involve no strain. These exercises have been worked out by Army exports, agisted by medical men, after many years of rcsirmch. “ The Army of to-day is fitter than ever it was. It has a sound mind in a sound body,”
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Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 8
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170ARMY’S NEW "SHUN!” Evening Star, Issue 20853, 24 July 1931, Page 8
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