Physical Training Research Paper

During my physical training, I learned many new things throughout different techniques. Before I was never consciously aware of how I walked and the components that make my walk, my walk. In class I learned several different things about myself, one being that I tend to slightly shift my weight forward into the opening space. Another thing I noticed is that my left arm swings more than my right, even though they both move a lot. Which according to a physical therapist Bailey, “Arm swing is a great indicator of how the back is functioning,” meaning that if someone doesn’t have much arm swing that it could be because of a troubled spine. (Scott, Paula Spencer..) My footfall and speed depends on binding agents, such as shoes. In tennis shoes …show more content…
Now I pay attention to not only the story they’re trying to tell through acting, but also their physical story and what their walk says about them. For example, during the play The Foreigner a good friend Alex Abrit played Ellard Simms. In this play his character is a bit slow minded and while going to the play for the second time to focus on his walk, I saw that his movement matched his personality. He walked with no confidence, very rigid, and shy-like, until he opened up to Charlie (the foreigner) throughout the play. In my favorite tv series, greys anatomy I’ve even see the differences between how people walk. For example, the newly freshed interns/ residents walk with their heads down most of the time, they take longer strides to try to keep up with their doctor they were assigned to, and most of them walk with a lack of confidence since they haven’t had much hands on experience. While on the other hand, the doctors walk around like they are the very best of the best and like they are an important deal to the hospital. Since they save lives every day they have that confidence booster, and standard to live up to. Most of them ahead of their department walk with a very upright poster, which shows how confident they are when they go into their patient’s room. Although, there are times where they also have the “walk of shame” and either have to tell the patient, or their family they are dying and they did everything possible that they could. Here they walk with their face down, a much smaller stride, and just very slow like since they’re about to deliver very bad news. It’s very interesting to see how they can change their walk depending on what’s going on in their everyday scenario. Not only do I pay attention to the details throughout plays and shows, but even when im walking to class and see other people. I notice that a lot of people swing out one of their arms