Technique Tips - Powerful Walking
I think part of it is keeping the body active, being in a state of readiness. And then what you do is, when you're being between steps, collecting your feet, you make your body even more energized as if you were moving through something very thick.
The way that you engage the body is to make it ready as if you were expecting to push through something thick or lift something difficult. You act as if that's the situation and then you have your power with you.
- Artist Name:
- Zigatango
- Song Title:
- Adios Nonino
- Album Title:
- Zigatango
From cd baby writeup: Zigatango reworks Argentinean tango and traditional Gypsy music with a rare youthful flair exposing a burning intensity of emotion, often combined with a wild, almost demonic energy.
- 00:04
- This video is about powerful walking.
- 00:07
- I can tell you a little bit about what it isn’t.
- 00:09
- It is not about walking really big and
it is not about walking really fast. - 00:15
- Now David can tell you a little bit about
what it is. - 00:19
- Thanks.
- 00:24
- It’s about moving forward from your centre
in low gear in a thick and textured way. - 00:33
- N: That’s good.
D: So you have power going forward... - 00:35
- .. but it’s not the power of up here.
- 00:38
- It’s the power of - well I guess
we have to do the body camera. - 00:41
- Watch, you take your whole body
and you go, like that. - 00:47
- Show us what it isn’t.
- 00:50
- N: So it’s not about walking fast…
D: Right, right. - 00:52
- So, because it’s - some people say,
get powerful and they get faster. - 00:58
- And it’s not about walking big.
- 01:02
- Which, you know, it’s something but it’s not.
- 01:05
- Imagine I have a stick right here
and I move his whole - - 01:10
- D: You’re moving the mic too.
N: Oops. - 01:12
- And I move his whole self as one piece
and that’s what it's really about. - 01:22
- So, I want you to imagine - can you stand right there?
- 01:26
- Here?
- 01:28
- There, scoot back one step, there.
- 01:31
- N: He’s got this planned.
D: Yes. - 01:33
- So, if I’m going to her,
I aim straight through her... - 01:36
- I engage my core and I go from here
my power to her. - 01:42
- I have an idea, do that to the camera.
- 01:45
- Oh, we’ll see how it works out.
- 01:49
- So, from down here, I take my power
and I go to you. - 01:56
- Now you do that to the full body camera.
Do it to the close-up camera. - 02:05
- From down here, my power goes through.
- 02:13
- So, he’s shown a lot of ways that
don’t work for walking powerfully. - 02:18
- I just want to ask him to walk across the floor
a couple of times in a way that does work. - 02:24
- And this is exaggerating a little bit...
- 02:26
- ..because it’s a little hard to see,
especially across the camera.
