ABSTRACT
Jumping, springing into the air, is such a familiar activity that it is introduced here quite generally; a full investigation into the possibilities for leaving the ground and returning to it, in particular the five basic forms, is given later in Chapter Fourteen. By adding aerial steps to the material already investigated much variation and enjoyment can be derived. To be stressed here is a feeling, the simple experience of jumping without regard to any details of performance. Focus on the desire to be free of gravity for a moment, to expend energy through bounding. In many forms of gymnastics, skating and dancing, aerial steps are included to be performed in a very precise way; it is the skill and precision which is admired and for which the performer aims. Here we are concerned not with a final form, but with a basic cause: enjoyment of the doing, rather than concern with just how the movement is done. In other words, we are again concerned with discovering the freedoms in use of this basic type of movement.
