Talk:Gait (human)

message: 9/1/21
Would people mind if I made a crack at updating this page significantly? It is all over the place and somewhat unreadable. For example this article starts off with 'foot strike' during sprinting and running, then transitions into control  of gait, and only then finally actually classifies the main human gaits (e.g. walking, running). I can't imagine that is what people actually want when looking at this page. I think it would be much better by just outlining the main actual information for these common, normal gaits. It seems like it should start with natural gaits and then get more involved from there rather than starting with some of the more random sub-ideas. It also seems like it should be broken up into several smaller pages, such as 'neuro control of gait', which is almost enough for its own page as written. Source- Have masters in biomechanics studying gait, now a medical doctor working in gait rehabilitation. Richgellis (talk) 19:39, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have frequently seen elderly people in physiotherapy and rehabilitation asked to walk the Bear Walk. I would surmise, without any medical expertise whatsoever, that this is to improve balance, and particularly control of the point of contact the supporting foot has on the terrain. (Analogously, perhaps, to the reason why Sumo wrestlers do an exaggerated Bear Walk in place. Although that may be pure ceremony; I suppose.) -- Cimon avaro; on a pogostick. 01:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Respecfully dispute teh uselessness of Bear Walk. 

message: That's got to be a joke, right? I'm pretty sure the "traffic cop" is just one of the two skipping guys wearing a windbreaker, sunglasses and a cop hat.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.76.226.135 (talk) 05:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch skipping video 

message: Where is the mention of goose-stepping?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.47.88 (talk) 19:01, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goose-step? 

message: Much as I LOVE LOVE LOVE the phrase "the fancy skun", it seems to exist only on this page and the various pages that have swiped its text.  Somebody please prove me wrong and supply a credible example of someone skunning.  I got burned bad on that whole "shpants/shankles" thing.  Asat (talk) 09:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  And what about skootching? 

message: I couldn't help but notice the animation on this page is nominated for deletion.  It is the walking robot!  Go here and here for the image and deletion notice and contest the deletion here.
Mod MMG (User Page) Reply on my talkpage.  Do NOT click this link 22:04, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion has been closed and the result was KEEP.  The file is now safe again.Mod MMG (User Page) Reply on my talkpage.  Do NOT click this link 09:00, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Some other admin decided to change the outcome, the file has now been deleted and a new picture placed on the page.Mod MMG (User Page) Reply on my talkpage.  Do NOT click this link 22:18, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick! 

message: mincing, swaggering etc are missing as listed in one of desmond morrises books.--Penbat (talk) 13:22, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  mincing, swaggering etc 

message: I totally disagree. Desmond Morris, in one of his books (Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour if i remember rightly), gives an excellent list of about 15 common walking gait styles (including marching, swaggering and mincing) that apply to the average person rather than uncommon eccentric types of walking listed here such as moonwalking or knee-walking. I think there is a better case for chucking out some of the excentric gaits listed here and concentrating on Morris's gait styles which are more typical of an average person. And you can hardly say that swaggering in the sense of walking is not notable where here it is given as the first meaning of the word "swagger". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/swagger --Penbat (talk) 15:59, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Presidential swaggering" is swaggering adopted by some US presidents..  You can't be serious. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 17:15, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

text: It's complete horseshit.  Fama, thanks for deleting that lot, I should have purged the article a long time ago. Mokele (talk) 03:27, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit by [[user:Mokele]] 

message: Much of the stuff in here is to do with human locomotion such as side stepping. We already have animal locomotion. We should have a "human locomotion" article so much of the crap here can be moved there so this article just covers gaits.--Penbat (talk) 20:33, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that to add more unreferenced crap or just to add more void sub-sections? --Fama Clamosa (talk) 21:51, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human locomotion 

message: Reference 10 is highly questionable - the study only involved 16 subjects in one specific geographic location; I think we all know people are WAY to varied and complex to draw general conclusions from such a thing.  Also, the evaluation by the experts seems really really fuzzy and not scientific (i.e., not repeatable).  Furthermore, there were only two people that gave this subjective evaluation of the 16 subjects.  I don't think the journalist of the article should even have reported on this, as it doesn't really tell us anything conclusively at all, but possibly suggests further research.
I think it should be removed as a reference from this article.  This is one of the main things that gives Wikipedia the negative side of its reputation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eboomer (talk • contribs) 00:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gender differences 

message: Is there really a description of how a human should go about walking? I mean, really? Not complaining about the content, it is clearly relevant, but isn't it a bit redundant, most people learn how to walk well before they can read these instructions.
m8e39 11:51, 4 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Walk 

message: The discussion at Talk:Gait (dog)#RM may affect this article's title.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  13:09, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  RM notice 

message: Could someone please expand on the abnormal gait patterns?  Specifically, it would be nice to explain what each gait pattern looks like.  It's a great start to have a description of the situations each gait pattern is most commonly found in, but actually giving a description of what each looks like would be helpful.  NJ (talk) 00:37, 13 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abnormal gait patterns 

message: Proposing a merge to Key determinants of gait to here on the grounds that it is all about human gait (rather than gait in general) and might add something to the mechanics. It's also a long-standing orphan. Klbrain (talk) 18:02, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 20:25, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal