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[Midwinter]

I only watched the first video, but it seems to me this guy just spent a few days following spastics and invalids about. Oh, wait a minute...

[xenomorph42]

From what I have been told was that traditionally, to walk like that was considered lady like because most women wore Kimono's and to walk straight while wearing a Kimono can be awkward as well as odd looking. The best way to describe the way they're walking would be to call it "Pigeon toed" or "inward" walking. Many Japanese women think it makes a woman look cute or sexy as opposed to walking straight which has a more masculine look.
Personally, I think it boils down to being lazy and not caring, dragging their feet sounding like a skier on dry land! I don't think that in this country places a lot of emphasis on proper etiquette when it comes to having a smooth stride.

[wuchan]

It may be due to the way they sit on the floor. I have noticed that a lot of women sit on their feet with the toes turned in. This is a very unnatural way to bend the knee possibly over stretching the ligaments.

[Ikemen-of-d00m]

Stalk this way...

[Evil Pongi]

Snow Plowin'

[Taro Toporific]

It may be due to the way they sit on the floor. I have noticed that a lot of women sit on their feet with the toes turned in. This is a very unnatural way to bend the knee possibly over stretching the ligaments.

Actually, the popular theoriesof "floor sitting" and "poor diet" are mostly wrong. Here's about the most succinct explanation...

SO, WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?
O-kyaku (walking pigeon-toed)
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...none of those popular theories have a leg to stand on, according to Dr. Makoto Kamegaya, head of orthopedics at Chiba Children's Hospital. "Sitting with the legs tucked under or to the side doesn't cause bowlegs," he assured me, "and neither does pechanko-zuwari, although that position is linked to uchimata hoko (walking pigeon-toed with the feet turned in.)" Bowlegs can't be blamed on how you sit, he asserted, and except for very rare cases, nutrition isn't a factor either. So what gives?
"What looks to foreigners like a high incidence of bowleggedness among Japanese is really just a racial tendency to lower legs that curve outward, perhaps combined with a cultural preference for a slightly pigeon-toed stance," Kamegaya told me, explaining that it's easier to walk when wearing kimono if you turn the toes slightly inward. "That also produces what has long been considered a graceful, attractive gait. Few women wear kimono anymore, but the preference remains."
All humans are born bow-legged, but in most cases the legs straighten out naturally between ages 2 and 4. "Japanese are more likely to have curved tibia than Caucasians, and a certain degree of curvature is considered normal in both children and adults," according to Kamegaya. "But the incidence of true bowleggedness, which is called Blount's disease, is not significantly higher in Japan, and most doctors in this country follow the same general guidelines used overseas to decide when correction is necessary. That usually means surgery to cut the leg bone and reset it."
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[Catoneinutica]

Actually, the popular theoriesof "floor sitting" and "poor diet" are mostly wrong. Here's about the most succinct explanation...

Right: it's genetic. The self-styled One Racers know it's true, but it kills them to admit it.

[SpikeX]

I just wish wish someone had a video of the "run at walking speed" thing girls do in high heels when they're late for the train. It gives the impression that "I'm in a hurry" but a radar gun would prove otherwise.
Cracked me up almost every time i saw it.

[Coligny]

I just wish wish someone had a video of the "run at walking speed" thing girls do in high heels when they're late for the train. It gives the impression that "I'm in a hurry" but a radar gun would prove otherwise.
Cracked me up almost every time i saw it.

You mean the office lady microbounce to look cutely efficient ? That's ridiculous but sometimes cute.

My wife only seems to know how to walk like a charging bull...
ever seen nurses run for cover ? that's the cute part...
ever seen damage to cheap furniture being toppled over ? that's the not-so-cute part...

[Zeth3D]

Ministry of Silly Walks

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[ashinoato]

Rickets?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets

[Hokgwai]

Goes to show how different cultures can be in terms of what is considered to be attractive.

Personally I find that walk to be annoying as hell...and seeing Japanese women who walk like "duck-goose-pigeons" because they don't know how to walk in heels drives me up the wall....

But I did hear from the horse's mouth that many of these girls do in on purpose to look "vulnerable" --- I guess that is what equates as being feminine in Japan....and I guess that's what the guys go for out here.

[Midwinter]

But I did hear from the horse's mouth that many of these girls do in on purpose to look "vulnerable" --- I guess that is what equates as being feminine in Japan....and I guess that's what the guys go for out here.

Going back about 15 years when I first washed up on these shores, I had a pretty young female student that would come to class every week looking like she was going to cry. There was this incredible sadness, or vulnerability about her that puzzled me as week in week out for 12 months as seemed to be always on the verge of tears. I eventually asked my boss what was her problem was and if she was alright, and he said that she was fine and that some Japanese women do that in order to attract a partner.

Seriously, wtf?!...

[Uthark_Runa]

I just wish wish someone had a video of the "run at walking speed" thing girls do in high heels when they're late for the train. It gives the impression that "I'm in a hurry" but a radar gun would prove otherwise.
Cracked me up almost every time i saw it.

This what I refer to as JSR "Japanese Spontaneous Running" since it always seems to happen at random intervals, and the typical speed is very rarely faster than walking.

I dont know why but that pigeon toe'd walk annoys me to no end more so than I think it should. Its not like a "well thats a weird walk, why is she doing that?" annoyance. its like a "Stop walking like that bitch!" annoyance. I think I may need counseling...