I have spent a decade walking like this, and I agree with you.
It seems that he wants to make his movements clear to the audience, but in practice I would expect he is walking with short balanced steps.
I walk like you describe you do, but in the end I also developed calves like those you see on the folks in paintings from the 1400-1500s!
A parenting aside: I want to make sure that my daughter grows up walking the way she already naturally does, but it is hard to find good footwear for it in kids. The materials are all heavy relative to the size of the shoes and so it is hard to find a shoe that is both flexible and resistent to the weather. I'd love to hear any suggestions.
I'm not so happy with their adult shoes. Some are good, like Gobi. Others are pretty bad, and they change their designs pretty radically so they never improve their weak points.
For example, I spent a few hundred on the first Porto iteration, and it fell apart in less than 2 months. Their German shop refused to honor the guarantee.
How old is your daughter, and how is the weather where you live?
My son is about 17 months old and has been walking for about 5 months. We live in one of the warmer parts of San Francisco, so for the first 3–4 months it was warm enough that he could just walk barefoot around the neighborhood. We sometimes get strange looks/questions from other pedestrians, and his feet get very dirty, but it’s easy to wipe them before going inside. When it gets too cold (i.e. he would sit down and refuse to walk on the sidewalk) we put some of these soft leather moccasins on him. https://amzn.com/B014EQ6OXM/
For cold rainy weather or older kids I’m not sure what the best choice would be. I’m somewhat of a mind to just buy some leather and make shoes at home; it doesn’t seem impossibly difficult (there are many straightforward patterns from e.g. North American tribes).
Thanks for sharing the observation about calves! I thought I got stronger calves from weight lifting. But perhaps it was the barefoot shoes as calve changes correlated better with me switching to wearing only barefoot then with my weightlifting.
It seems that he wants to make his movements clear to the audience, but in practice I would expect he is walking with short balanced steps.
I walk like you describe you do, but in the end I also developed calves like those you see on the folks in paintings from the 1400-1500s!
A parenting aside: I want to make sure that my daughter grows up walking the way she already naturally does, but it is hard to find good footwear for it in kids. The materials are all heavy relative to the size of the shoes and so it is hard to find a shoe that is both flexible and resistent to the weather. I'd love to hear any suggestions.