SCHOOL OF THE SOLDIER
PART I - LESSON II
Principles of the Double Quick Step
- The length of the double quick step is thirty-three inches, and its swiftness at the rate
of one hundred and sixty-five steps per minute.
- The instructor wishing to teach the recruits the principles and mechanism of the double
quick step, will command:
1. Double Quick Step 2. MARCH.
- At the first command, the recruit will raise his hands to a level with his hips, the hands
closed, the nails toward the body, the elbows to the rear.
- At the second command, he will raise to the front his left leg bent, in order to give to
the knee the greatest elevation, the part of the leg between the knee and the instep
vertical, the toe depressed; he will then replace his foot in its former position with the
right leg he will then execute what has just been prescribed for the left, and the
alternate movement of the legs will be continued until the command:
1. Squad. 2. HALT.
- At the second command, the recruit will bring the foot which is raised by the side of the
other and dropping at the same time his hands by his side, will resume the position of the
soldier without arms.
- The instructor placing himself seven or eight paces from., and facing the recruit, will
indicate the cadence by the commands, one and two, given alternately at the instant each
foot should be brought to the ground, which at fir-it will be in common time, but its
rapidity will be gradually augmented.
CONTINUE TO PART II - INTRODUCTION
BACK TO INTERACTIVE TRAINING GUIDE
|
