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SWEDISH GYMNASTICS.
349
the gymnastic idea would spread throughout his country and in
accordance with the outline indicated by him.
According to Ling’s idea, the selection and kinds of exercises must
be grounded on the requirements of the body itself. The body itself
is consequently the object of, as well as the principal instrument or
implement for, the performance of the work to be done. In many
exercises, however, external implements are also needed, and these have
been devised with exclusive regard to the obtaining a good result from
the necessary exercises. Through the correct use of the implements, it
becomes increasingly possible to limit more precisely the form and the
scope of action of a movement. This limitation has been called
localization, sometimes isolation, to distinguish it from a combination of forces,
which is also necessary to obtain the effect desired. Such combination
has been called synergy or co-operation.
Lesson in gymnastics to Schoolboys, Central Gymnastic Institute, Stockholm.
Ling had not time during his busily occupied life — a life also
tried by adverse fortunes — to summarize and put into print a
complete system of gymnastics. He published only one fairly
comprehensive work on the subject, entitled General Principles of Gymnastics.
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