Namba aruki

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Namba aruki, the namba walk or the way japanese people used to walk in the past, presented by Kono osensei :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC66NZj8pJ4
Namba aruki à 0:25, 1:20 et 5:10 (visual explanation comparing actual walking and old japanese walking)

This was a no twist walking. So a consequence: people didn't run like us, it was looking like a danse (look at ukiyoe), and it explains how woodcutter were able to run 40 to 50 ri per day (200 km a day), it was an use of an "horizontal fall"