[See our blog entry “ Walk like a Warrior ” for historical instances of the topic. Our focus here is the mechanics of the indigenous warrior strides and their uses in modern life.] The human stride has its idiosyncrasies [in general to the species and in particular to the individual.] Modern/ “civilized” humans have developed a plantigrade stride, that is, planting heel first then rolling to the toe. It is surmised that both footwear and prepared surfaces [flat-ground everywhere] fostered this switch from ball-of-the-foot or flat-foot strides commonly used by those who develop strides on sand, gravel, rocks, trails and other natural terrain. Our world is one of walking-surface regularity, even our elevated steps [stairs and terraced environments] have an engineered homogeneity to them. And this every-day-of-our-lives regularity has grooved a pattern in us. We have come to be “ step-expectant ,” that is, to assume that our next foot placement will be quite similar,...
Examining & Resurrecting Indigenous Skills and Frontier Rough & Tumble Combat