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Why be a champion jumper or a special team member in any sport, if you cannot climb or swim?

— Georges Hébert

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Seek to be strong not only physically but also morally.

Methodical or rational education enhances accuracy, avoids guesswork, rejects everything that is unnecessary and monitors results.

Resistance to cold is as part of physical education as the gymnastic exercises. It is why the bare torso must be the rule all the time when the atmospheric conditions are not too unfavorable.

There is, therefore, a general type of rational method or system of human development, based on progressive training work and the consistent practice of the natural and practical exercises. We can call it the natural method.

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