Walking Tall(er)

[iq144]

OK, so sort of weird thread here.

One of the guys on my team was watching me on deck at a semi-important meet. He told me that I was walking in another guy's shadow, leaning over and sort of hunching, and that I should walk taller and in front, not behind.

So I've been trying it for a while now and it's really, really strange. I keep my shoulders straight and head up, and try to keep about a step ahead (small distance) of whoever I'm with, or at least even. 3 girls on the team that haven't given me a second look before started talking to me for no apparent reason. One just suddenly hugged me from behind in the pool. Guys act friendlier and more forgiving, laugh more readily and try to be helpful. All this by merely changing how and where I walk.

Very strange, isn't it?

[Drosselmeier]

I'm correcting my posture, TADAY!

[liquidicem]

Changing how you walk can make you look much more confident. People are drawn to and tend to offer more respect to confident people.

[Soulstones]

Changing how you walk can make you look much more confident. People are drawn to and tend to offer more respect to confident people.

Yep, or your jsut imagining the whole situation

[liquidicem]

Yep, or your jsut imagining the whole situation

Very possible also.

[SomeCanadianGuy]

Body language has a lot to do with how people see you and how they'll treat you. If you're slouched over, dragging your feet along, trailing a bit behind the group you're with, people will tend to take it as meaning that either you're not that interested in what's going on, or that you're not very interesting yourself. However, if you start to act more in control, even if it's just by the way you walk or stand, people will subconsciously notice it and tend to gravitate towards you more. It's one of the tricks with remaining the alpha dog. If you look and act confident, people will think you are; in turn, you'll realize this and start to act more and more in control, and so on and so forth. It's really mainly a matter of image and appearance. One good thing to remember is that it's roughly 70% how you act, and only 30% what you say that actually gives people their impression on you.

[Cloud_Walker]

To gain a good image, friendship, kindness, respect, and some other things, it takes the right combination of confidence and humility. Confidence is more key, though. Like SCG said, body language is VERY important.

[Freemason]

Ever notice the people that while walking always look at their feet? No? I'm not suprised. They're afraid. Weak. Try it one time.

Go to the mall and walk around looking at your feet. People won't get out of your way. Then suddenly start walking tall. Hold your head up and look into people's eyes. You'll find people get out of your way. Weak men won't look at you. Alpha male types won't look away.

People are attractive to the alpha male. They give you respect. Then you give yourself more respect. It snowballs into bigger and better things.

One thing you need to do is have somebody critique your way of walking. I have an extremely aggressive stride. It turns a lot of people off because I walk like a man on his way to do murder. I'm still working on learning a different way of walking.

[bigD72]

OK, so sort of weird thread here.

One of the guys on my team was watching me on deck at a semi-important meet. He told me that I was walking in another guy's shadow, leaning over and sort of hunching, and that I should walk taller and in front, not behind.

So I've been trying it for a while now and it's really, really strange. I keep my shoulders straight and head up, and try to keep about a step ahead (small distance) of whoever I'm with, or at least even. 3 girls on the team that haven't given me a second look before started talking to me for no apparent reason. One just suddenly hugged me from behind in the pool. Guys act friendlier and more forgiving, laugh more readily and try to be helpful. All this by merely changing how and where I walk.

Very strange, isn't it?

We paid them to help boost your self-confidence. Enjoy

[Canadia142]

[COLOR=Pink]I used to walk with slouched shoulders and I would stare at the ground until one day my good friend Esteban said "Adam you look like a fat ***** when you walk, don't look at the ground and keep your shoulders up."

I never really noticed I did this until he said that then I started to walk with my shoulders up and stared straight ahead and it made me feel better about walking and stuff[/COLOR]