How can I make you walk in circles?
Have the boys been answering Hows while under the influence again? Nah! Gail’s just trying to demonstrate how it’s surprisingly hard to walk in a straight line. If you have your eyes closed, that is.
Here’s a straight line, laid out on the How2 studio floor.
Gareth shuts his eyes and heads off.
Not too bad, but…
Ah. He hasn’t quite managed to stay on the line. How does Fred do?
Worse, sorry to say. What’s going on? Why are they both veering to the right?
When you walk, you tend to lean a little more on one leg than the other – your dominant leg. If you prefer to kick with one leg, it’ll be that one. Leaning like that unbalances your walking gain – you take longer strides with your weaker leg as you lean on the stronger one.
As a result, you tend to walk in a gentle curve – walk for long enough, and you’ll walk right round in a big circle!