I just see so many newbies trying to overstep their limits and then either tripping over themselves in failure or backing down altogether. Sure, everyone will stumble a little along the way, but it’s important to be able to recognize when you have a good foothold and when you don’t. I get a real kick out of it, but I want to help them along too.
Hopefully if you fall on your face, it will jog your memory and you’ll remember all the walking advice that deadfrog tried to give you. If you really want to walk, you have to step up. If you really want to walk, you need to learn how to stand on your own two. If you really want to walk, all it takes is dedication and practice… so hop to it.
I would recommend to newer walkers that they take the time to study, analyze, and really think about their walks, and how they walk. Being conscious of exactly what goes into the walking process allows one to achieve a greater mastery over its intricacies. That is to say, having knowledge of all the small, subtle, individual machinations that combine to form the walk as a whole gives one the opportunity of dramatic improvement. If you can mentally disassemble the concept into its most basic elements and then put it back together for yourself, your understanding of how it works can only serve to benefit an increase in walking performance.
A fact not widely known–even among serious walkers–is that each forward step we take is actually a tiny, deliberate and calculated fall. We lean ourselves forward and, rocking on one foot, catch ourselves shortly into our fall with the opposing foot, just as we begin to tip over. Our familiarity and comfort with this process, achieved through repetition at a young age, coupled with the level of control that we generally exercise over it, generally accounts for a lack of awareness of each fall. Being able to break down this idea to its components and then reform it into the sum of those sequential parts will unlock a deeper and powerful level of results-verifiable ability for you. It gives a clear definition for the purpose of each and every action, such that you can then streamline your cycle of repeated refinement and revision to maximize the efficiency of your optimizations.
Where I live there are not many people that walk. How can I walk at the level of the best in America, if there is nobody for me to walk with nearby? I do not have enough time to go to walking tournaments that are many hours away. Should I watch videos of pros walking in New York, Cali and Japan, or should I just walk on my own? Should walking even be my hobby at all?
So I’m pretty good at walking, even got some of the more advanced stuff like running and jumping down to about 80% with the help of some tutorial vids, but I can’t for the life of me do the kara inputs to do the pimp walk with any reliability, any suggestions?
Just posting to remind everyone that if you watch this movie your testicles will shrivel into sweet little raisins. This is an old warning now but it’s still just as important as ever. Please be careful.
Put yourself in their shoes! I’m sure they all already have busy lives and they deserve leisure time, and I don’t want to walk all over that by hiking up the workload they have to deal with. Especially during the holidays, I should hope that they would be able to just put up their feet and kick back.