I have a slight swoosh in my hips when i walk in high heels due to the fact that when you walk in heels you walk almost like you on a balance beam.. but in flats I don't think I do

Quote from: noleen111 on May 01, 2014, 02:43:41 AM
I have a slight swoosh in my hips when i walk in high heels due to the fact that when you walk in heels you walk almost like you on a balance beam.. but in flats I don't think I do

Me too. It's funny the great difference in high heel shoes. It's almost automatic in heels?

I noticed today I tend to walk one foot in front of the other in a straight line. That "one rail" so to speak.

I also don't do that masculine shoulder swag anymore. Thank god for that.

I've been told I do something like this naturally, even though I've never tried to do it. I've gotten a lot of crap for it, especially in high school and the military. Oh well. At least now it can be a good thing. I'm proud of it now.

This is how you do it!

I've been told I've developed a bit of a sway in my walk since breaking out of my shell a bit.

I do.  It was one of the things I always did until I was bullied out of it at age ten.  Regaining my wiggle was part of reclaiming myself.

Rosie

I am a very fresh entry to this site, so I apologize if I am breaking any unknown protocol......


But...I have found that in my early stages of realization, I definitely have begun to let my guard down and I'll be damned if I don't have a little wiggle from the ease of the stress.


X (Yet unnamed, in larval form, Bob)

I kinda wiggle or so I've been told. Sometimes purposely -- like when theres a really cute someone around and you know they are watching.. give them a treat, and shake what your mamma gave you (or not) and feel the power in them booty hips  ;-)

I've always walked kind of pigeon toed with a wiggle in my butt, very feminine. It always came natural to me. However after my 91 accident I have one leg that's twisted outwardly so while I still walk with a wiggle in my butt I have to mentally keep my awkward leg straight. Also as a result of hrt my pelvis has tilted forward arching my lower back in straightening my posture. I now walk with my head held high whereas before I was stooped over a bit. Anyhoo, my butt wiggles when I walk, it naturally always has.

Ali

I often feel a bit of tension in my buttocks when I'm walking in a "normal manly way", but when I release that tension, I have a fairly natural feminine walk. As far as I can remember, I've never "practiced" walking in any particular way, but the feminine mode has always felt natural. While at home (I live alone) I can walk any way I like and feminine seems to be the easiest. Other times, it just feels weird, especially when I'm walking with someone. I can do a relatively smooth hips sway without too much trouble, but anytime I do that, I'm normally at home. Damn society and it's "norms"!!

First off a disclaimer, I am far from one who needs or wants to tell people how or what they should do, so this is my observation.  The first time I read this I reflected on not only how this has been on my mind off and on, but also what I noticed while in downtown Seattle for my Dr. visit.  I sat in my truck and just watched both women and men and how they walk. I did this for a good 20 min or so and I noticed very few women who seemed to have a 'distinct' feminine walk.  I thought, well the next time I go down there I will repeat this and I pretty much came up with the same conclusion but with just a bit more refinement.  The more noticeable walk came from the older women (50+ years) and the younger (25 to 35) only a very slight difference with just a few.  The most noticeble were the teens who seemed to walk most like the boys.  Now here is where my observations could quite possibly be faulty, I may still be looking through the lens of masculinity and may be skewed, also the subtle difference could be just the simple matter of physiology.  The exaggerated masculine walk was mostly in the young guys.
So now why I put on the disclaimer, does accentuating any perception of how a woman walks increase the likelyhood of being 'clocked', who knows, this is like I said just an observation.

Quote from: Evelyn K on April 29, 2014, 04:48:06 PM
And to help visualize this, reposting this male vs female walk simulator from a different thread (I forgot where.)

http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html

I found the BioMotion Lab walking simulator a bit over a year ago and it has been very helpful to me. I was worried a lot about hip and leg motion and found that most of the feminine aspect in walked actually came from the shoulders and arms. Learning to position the shoulders and arms will give you a distinctively feminine walk even without working hard on the hips or legs.


And an addendum...

Quote from: Newgirl Dani on August 22, 2014, 11:41:45 AM
First off a disclaimer, I am far from one who needs or wants to tell people how or what they should do, so this is my observation.  The first time I read this I reflected on not only how this has been on my mind off and on, but also what I noticed while in downtown Seattle for my Dr. visit.  I sat in my truck and just watched both women and men and how they walk. I did this for a good 20 min or so and I noticed very few women who seemed to have a 'distinct' feminine walk.  I thought, well the next time I go down there I will repeat this and I pretty much came up with the same conclusion but with just a bit more refinement.  The more noticeable walk came from the older women (50+ years) and the younger (25 to 35) only a very slight difference with just a few.  The most noticeble were the teens who seemed to walk most like the boys.  Now here is where my observations could quite possibly be faulty, I may still be looking through the lens of masculinity and may be skewed, also the subtle difference could be just the simple matter of physiology.  The exaggerated masculine walk was mostly in the young guys.
So now why I put on the disclaimer, does accentuating any perception of how a woman walks increase the likelyhood of being 'clocked', who knows, this is like I said just an observation.

Your observation matches mine. The "hip wiggle" walk is sometimes called the "cat walk" as in how a model walks on a cat walk displaying clothing.

As I noted above, arm and shoulder position and motion seem to me to be more distinctly feminine that legs.

The next time you conduct your experiment try watching arms and shoulders. Also try to BioMotion Lab walking simulator to see what I mean. I get gendered female from my walk even when presenting male sometimes now.

Quote from: LizMarie on August 22, 2014, 06:32:33 PM
I found the BioMotion Lab walking simulator a bit over a year ago and it has been very helpful to me. I was worried a lot about hip and leg motion and found that most of the feminine aspect in walked actually came from the shoulders and arms. Learning to position the shoulders and arms will give you a distinctively feminine walk even without working hard on the hips or legs.


And an addendum...

Your observation matches mine. The "hip wiggle" walk is sometimes called the "cat walk" as in how a model walks on a cat walk displaying clothing.

As I noted above, arm and shoulder position and motion seem to me to be more distinctly feminine that legs.

The next time you conduct your experiment try watching arms and shoulders. Also try to BioMotion Lab walking simulator to see what I mean. I get gendered female from my walk even when presenting male sometimes now.

Thats interesting, I will check this out, thanks.

I wish I wiggled more naturally. If wearing heals I seem to have some wiggle but if flat shoes there is just nothing??