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Confident walking


Key:
  • The red or green elipses represent possible locations for your center of gravity. Green is good, red is bad.
  • A black footprint means that weight is on that foot.
  • A white footprint means that weight is not (yet) on that foot.
This is what your center of gravity should look like between confident strides. Your center of gravity is somewhere between your front and back feet, neither in front nor behind them.
In this image, the left foot is not yet touching the ground, but the center of gravity is already anticipating its placement. This person is off balance, and is in the midst of what William refers to as a "controlled fall." This is not a confident stride.
This is what your center of gravity should look like in the midst of a confident stride. The left foot is extended (you're taking a step) but the center of gravity is still over the right foot. Thus, you're balanced and in control.
I threw this in just to show you a step gone horribly wrong. The balance is out in front of the right foot, and the left foot isn't even in a place to recieve the weight when it comes forward. This is someone who is about to fall over. Actually, this is probably fine for jogging, but crummy for confident walking.
Created by Noel Shepherd, based on the NLP-Plus confidence module by Archangel.