The Duck Walk
'Bipedal' locomotion: foundational patterns & conditioning
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THE WHAT:
A progressively-extending locomotion context developing mobility, joint-integrity, and patterning of the general squat form in motion. In its most basic intent, the practice is of placing ever further-reaching bases of support (the foot), and then TRANSFERRING the weight of the body – “ROLLING” over the ball of the foot - to that new support. With the additional intention of PULLING the back leg around to the front in as EXTENDED (i.e. outward-reaching) an arc as possible BEFORE the foot is placed as the next support, a stimulus of “compression”-conditioning is also affected.
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