how WALKING well helps you jump further & run faster.

[@Benni720]

I've literally been searching for quite a while for a professional walking tutorial. As goofy as that sounds.

[@TimH86]

Thanks for your videos - absolutey great content. Putting some important issues forth with great explanations and then also covering how to improve those movements. Thanks! I feel your channel is way underappreciated right now, many athletes can benefit from this!

[@TheoTanchak]

Glad your enjoying the content! Share it on it facebook/instagram, it helps me out a lot.

[@TimH86]

@@TheoTanchak I would if I had any of those 😅 but comment/like helps a little bit I guess 🙄

[@PawelParkour]

A wild Tim appeared! Are you still training?

[@TimH86]

@@PawelParkour whoo this is so cool to meet you through here 😁 Hi man! I train every now and then. My life has changed a lot since we last met: we have 4 children now and I’m running my own business so its challenging to find time and energy. It’s been off and on, but I happened to meet two oldschoolers (Sebastiaan Tieland & Jeroen Witteveen) and they still train several times a week. I sometimes join in ;) how are you doing man?

[@Tom-hq2jx]

Great content, do you think you make a rubrica reviewing our jumps? Kinda like posture critique, and you know, saying all the good stuff you always say

[@directnaamee]

Thatd be great

[@Sway___SD]

I found that walking parallel to the sun was an amazing way to check out your form, you can't check where your center of gravity is sitting but if you focus on your hip placement and feeling the stretch in the hips/butt/quads/calves it works like a charm! any swaying or irregularities become clear in your shadow and can supplement your findings from recording yourself! it's helped me a lot, cheers

[@dawa8746]

"parallel"? Where's your shadow cast in such an arrangement?

[@Sway___SD]

@@dawa8746 it's been so long, sorry if I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure my shadow would fall directly in front of me so you just walk and keep looking forward and would be able to see any weirdness going on with your shadow

[@jwmartnet]

Wish I'd seen this several years ago! I literally felt stupid questioning how to walk properly as everyone knows how to walk and I'd been doing it for over 35 years!

[@RhysKirk]

I love gait patterns, this was really helpful. Time to extend them hips and strut

[@TheoTanchak]

Thanks Rhys, get that extension going!

[@sarasotauptoseattle]

I love the way you explain things. I've been working on this for the past year and these videos are the best, hands down. Thanks for sharing!

[@TadeoPontecorvo]

Brilliant! Randomly bumping into this just before a 30 min walk, had the chance to try it out and it's phenomenal

[@Anne-qx6ky]

Thanks for the informational video, I appreciate it! I feel like I learned more about posture and its affect on one's athletic abilities.

[@vvwalker7261]

Wow, great video, I wish I had known this years ago!

[@teamakusa]

The Ashigaru Tee made it🏆

[@QuickStrikes84]

Sweet video! After watching this, I will try to engage my abs when I walk, so that my hips are more level for better hip extension. Also thinking of doing sled push with an exaggerated hunch by flexing abs to do the same as above + pushing shoulders forward to work the anterior serratus as well. Striking power goals! 👊

[@mck6583]

Really enjoy your content. There is something new to learn every video and more often than not there were some points I already tried to add to my movement pattern. Just tried the walking technique for a few minutes. Because of all the active flexing and pushing forwards, it felt like I was walking at least twice as fast as usual ^^

[@oscarboerger]

Love it! 👍 Keep it up

[@Semek7]

Can you give us any tips on how to improve vertical jump?

[@TheoTanchak]

This directly applies to vertical jump. Hip extension is massive determinant in all jumping movements. Its basically how far the leg can go behind you, and thus push into the ground.

[@Semek7]

@@TheoTanchak Thanks! I also wondered if you got any more tips to jumping higher

[@christopherwinn2441]

I really liked this video!? Keep going 🤘🏼

[@slacklewis]

Love the biomechanical analysis you do. Do you think slacklining is a good training tool for the walk, assuming you can maintain stability and extension?

[@nickyt4391]

While I’m not going to disagree.. it’s impossible to tell their actual hip alignment without them being bare.. a lot of elite athletes are more in anterior rotation than anything

[@rrai-]

@nicky what?

[@certifiedruff]

Love these videos! Keep them coming. Any tips on the best hip stretches?

[@davidzahariia1558]

Why don't you make more videos? I find them very educatuonal interesting and informative.

[@matthias8267]

thanks for the great content!

[@santiagovinicius2988]

great, thanks!

[@nikolasimeonov]

Another great video, thank you for all the information. I do have slight anterior pelvic tilt combined with a little too flat feet. Do you think getting barefoot shoes will help the issue in combination with your tips, or should I work on my issues before going barefoot?

[@codywinter4818]

If you're wearing shoes with drop that affects your body alignment all the way through the knees hips and spine, it takes time and effort to transition but you should definitely work on your feet and watch a lot of videos about this. Its the foundation holding up the rest of your body. I'm not an expert but I'd say dont think of it as I need to fix this before I go barefoot but going barefoot will help me also fix this. But take it slow at first.

[@rayantraceur]

Hey, very useful and smart ! I started some months ago walking while focusing on posterior pelvic tilt, and extending my hip, thank you for the reminder ;) Why do you say at the beginning that you have to stretch 5h a day to gain ROM ? Do you talk only about hip flexors or in general ? Because my experience says it's wrong, with 2 min a day I got good ROM in my hams, and gained a bit in my hip flexors (well I still don't have my splits :p )

[@RapIndulgent]

What do you think about the ATG split squat for this movement improvement outside of just walking?

[@TheoTanchak]

Its more about how you're doing the movement, than the movement itself.

[@731-l3o]

the sasquatch walk

[@flixnumber1]

please analyse a crip walk

[@mrpk646]

What about walking uphill or downhill

[@davidc.9758]

Thanks.

[@AkumaQiu]

You need Weck method like yesterday Jesus h christ

[@kiandayani4276]

legend

[@jakobstisen6366]

Cool video more

[@thomasernst7866]

I have been barefoot(shoes) and started parkour about half a year. If I understood right while walking with a leveled hip and with long steps you active the hip extension, but with barefoot you are encouraged to forefoot strike and take small steps so don't engage hip extension nor ankle dorsiflexion as much. Is barefoot flawed for those movements or I just should take longer steps while walking to develop them? Seeing that you trained parkour actually barefoot do you have some insight in this? I'm actually training my ankle dorsiflexion (from also being genetically poor) to prevent injuries and better my RoM but I never did something about the hip extension

[@j2a9c8k7]

The reduction in stride length for barefoot running should come from the recovery phase of the stride (while the foot is swinging forward). The "short stride" is basically a cue to prevent you over-reaching and ending up with a heavy landing and heel-strike. The toe-off phase, where the hip should be in extension, doesn't get shortened. High level sprinters are a great example here: they will have fantastic hip extension in the toe-off phase, and their recovering foot will land almost directly beneath their centre of mass with a midfoot strike.

[@daisystrait]

I fucking knew i was walking wrong

[@levihalperin7649]

How can I work with you?

[@TheoTanchak]

You can contact me through my website, or instagram.

[@matriaxpunk]

But your spine and your hips jave to rotate to walk properly, when you show a "stable spine", you're walking like a robot, that's not how normal humans should walk.

[@JoAlpzino]

tried walking like this all the time for a bit and it just gave me a hip flexor overuse injury. Wouldn't recommend; if you want to jump further & run faster just do athletics. This doesn't actually feel like something that would train the tissue, and I'm guessing it also lacks some research based evidence.