The 'Horse Walk'
'Bipedal' locomotion: foundational patterns & conditioning
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THE WHAT:
A locomotion conditioning pattern taking the fundamental, static 'Horse-stance' into travelling through space. Its practice both “maps” as well as serves for, strength, conditioning, & mobility-development of the 'low-gait' position, as well as an understanding of efficient “weight-shifting” between the feet as bases of support. Notice how there is NO side-to-side leaning of the torso in execution in order to affect this “shifting”. Instead, the body’s centre of mass is TRANSFERRED left to right in coordination with the steps, facilitated by a pendulum-like swinging of the arms (they simply HANG at the front of the body, swaying naturally back & forth as a pendulum would in coordination with the motion of the pattern).
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