Walking- Who Am I?

It is a simple fact of life that no two people walk alike. I recall an interview with Dustin Hoffman in which he explained how he couldn’t find the character for Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy until he found his walk. Our walk defines us. Our sense of self is as manifested in how we move through space as it is in our DNA.

Perhaps more than anything else, the main goal of the FitzGordon Method is to help you get to know yourself. Let’s start with a simple question: do you know how you walk? Do you understand the way you move? Is your gait fast or slow? Is it easy or aggressive? Not until you can identify these traits can you try and understand why it is you have them in the first place. Our program is about unlocking your patterns by first identifying them and then making an effort to change them, to take on new patterns by choice.

So then, the first order of business in the FitzGordon Method is to acknowledge that you have a walk all your own. Once you’ve accepted that fact, you can begin to get to know it. One way to do that is by looking at the way others walk, examining the myriad differences in step and gait and posture. This will help you gain a clearer picture of your own movement patterns.