Gait Analysis Quotes

When I see people on the street, I look at how they walk. It's like a signature, a fingerprint.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

Runners are poor walkers.

In particular, I studied German and Russian biomechanics.

I'm fascinated with psychology, and with why a person walks the way they walk or why they walk into a room the way they do or why we are the way we are, and it's not exclusive to the psychology of a character.

Walking is a skill that took millions of years for us to develop... If you wanted to design a robot that could walk as well as a person, this would be fantastically complicated software. It would have to be doing billions of calculations with every step.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

Why do you need to gallop while you fly?" "Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.

Some people can’t figure out what I’m doing. It’s not a walk-hop, it’s not a trot, it’s running, or as close as I can get to running, and it’s harder than doing it on two legs. It makes me mad when people call this a walk. If I was walking it wouldn’t be anything.

I guess I had to learn how to run properly. I spent a lot of time on a giant treadmill, like one of those wheels mice run around on, and got filmed doing it to improve my form.