Ladies, I've been at this for a long time.
The Walk, has always eluded me.
Now, I know many of you will read this rest of this, and think, "This girl must be slow", but for the few that may be encountering the problems I have, and unable to figure it out, I hope this may help.
For years I've read that to get the Walk, one thing to do is wear heels. I wear four inch heels out in my shop routinely, and other lower heights depending on occasion. A thing I hate about all of them is that often, as I put the heel down, it will slip backwards with this scraping noise as the foot rolls forward.
Not so for GG women, and I've watched a lot of them. The heel slip comes and goes for me, and I don't think my walk was very good.
Before you suggest it, yes, I've reviewed the gait simulations, and various instructional videos.
I keep trying to figure it out, and tonight I tried just walking on my toes ... no heels on the shoes, just tennies. I felt like I was strutting ... which seemed like the thing I want to achieve. So yeah, heels would do that, get me on my toes, so why isn't it working?!
The few neurons I use seemed to click on this and say ... "**** Maybe you are supposed to be walking on your toes, even though you are in heels ... flex that calf just as hard as you do to get on your toes without the heel, but do it, with the heels on ... you dummy!!****".
Wow. So simple. You have to do the work, not the heel. I just tried it and no more slippage, and I feel the strut now. Heels comes down with that feminine CLICK that is so intoxicating and it feels better as I roll forward. I think this may be it, and it means working harder when walking in heels to get it right. In short, I was being lazy. Its why some of the videos suggest calf strengthening, I suspect.
Decades of working to emulate the female form ... still learning.
I'm open to any thoughts or similar ah-ha moments in achieving the Walk.
Best,
Val