Remember that it is impossible to increase the length of a jump on skis by springing forward as you would for a standing long jump, for you can, of course, get no purchase for the backward push. Even in the first method of making the "Sats," although the body should shoot forwards, the push of the feet is almost entirely downwards. The "Sats," in fact, when it is a jump at all, is a high jump only. Any pronounced attempt to make it a long jump will result in a fall.
_Position in the Air_ (Plate L., &c.).--Having completed the movement of the "Sats," do not alter the position of your body and legs, but hold yourself perfectly erect during your flight through the air, your feet and skis being perfectly level (_i.e._ neither ahead of the other), close together, and exactly parallel. The skis must as soon as possible be brought parallel to the slope below you, and therefore your feet must be pointed downwards, if they are not so already, and the toes must be pressed down to prevent the heels of the skis from dropping, as they are very apt to do.
A jumper when in the air generally swings his arms round and round. Now the dog cannot wag its tail much without the tail wagging its dog a little, and as the jumper is moving freely through space his shoulder-muscles cannot swing his arms round in one direction without at the same time swinging him--_i.e._ his body and legs as a whole--round in the other, though the movement of his body and legs will be much slower, as their mass is much greater, than that of the arms.
If, then, he is not tilted far enough forward, the jumper can, by swinging his arms in a forward-upward-backward-downward direction, make the rest of himself revolve slowly in the opposite direction on the axis of his shoulder-joints, and so tilt himself gradually forward; or, if his forward tilt is too great--which is not very likely--he can reduce it by swinging his arms round the other way.
_Landing._--You should land in the above position, with the feet level, close together, and pointed well down, so that the skis strike the ground with their whole surface simultaneously, not with their heels first. Although the legs should be kept straight during most of the flight through the air, they should be bent slightly just _before_ you touch the snow.