We’re familiar with the natural gaits of the horse: walk, trot, pace, canter, gallop.

The natural gaits of man include:
Walk, run, skip-without-rope, crawl, run on all fours, cartwheel & tumble.
The question I want answered is to put these in order of maximum speed over a fixed distance. Here are some records:

Fastest run on all fours (Nov 2012) 100 metres in 17.4 sec.
Fastest crawl (Nov 2009) 1 mile in 22 min 4 sec.
Fastest skip-without-rope (Dec 2011) 1 marathon (42.195 km) in 5 hr 55 min 13 sec.
I haven’t seen any speed records for cartwheels or tumbling (records are for number of cartwheels and difficulty of tumbling)

So, in (roughly) what order would the gaits come in over a 100 metre course?

Ha?

Can cartwheels and tumbling really be classified as “gaits”?

I don’t think a cartwheel is a gait. It isn’t sustainable.

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i would have thought that ‘natural’ gaits would be crawl, walk, jog, run..

run on all fours?

stumpy_seahorse said:

i would have thought that ‘natural’ gaits would be crawl, walk, jog, run..

Err, you are missing one of the most important one’s…stumble.

Ian said:

run on all fours?

Surely a horse would walk faster.

I reckon those kids brought up by wolves would run pretty fast on all fours. How else would they catch rabbits?

The Tennessee Walking Horse is best known for its “running walk”. This is a four-beat gait with the same footfall pattern as a regular, or flat, walk, but significantly faster. While a horse performing a flat walk moves at 4 to 8 miles per hour (6.4 to 13 km/h), the running walk allows the same horse to travel at 10 to 20 miles per hour (16 to 32 km/h).

wiki

sibeen said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

i would have thought that ‘natural’ gaits would be crawl, walk, jog, run..

Err, you are missing one of the most important one’s…stumble.

that is my usual walk

I figure 4.6s for the 100m using the of feet together jumping…
















…the above record may involve starting at the edge of a cliff that is over 100m high

What is the longest time for continued backflips?

forward backflips?

At least she tried?
http://imgur.com/gallery/BB0406z

Longest Backflip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv-BdRPIYQ

Miranda Ferguson, 16-Year-Old Cheerleader, Sets World Record For Flipping (WATCH)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/miranda-ferguson-16-year-_n_1947880.html

Longest continuous back flipping!

CrazyNeutrino said:

Miranda Ferguson, 16-Year-Old Cheerleader, Sets World Record For Flipping (WATCH)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/08/miranda-ferguson-16-year-_n_1947880.html

Longest continuous back flipping!

Wish I could see it

> I don’t think a cartwheel is a gait. It isn’t sustainable.

You think not?

“Nov 13, 2010 – BELGAUM, Karnataka, India—Abhinandan Sadalge, a nine-year old boy from Belgaum performed 1321 cartwheels in a row (in 37 minutes and 53 seconds) at Basaveshwar Circle”.

How many metres would that be per cartwheel?

> Jumping

That makes sense, but I’d bet it was slower than skipping-without-rope.

> Stumbling

Slowest of all.

> So, in (roughly) what order would the gaits come in over a 100 metre course?

Rough guide, speed over a distance of 100 metres:
9.26 m/s, running
5.75 m/s, running on all fours
5.7 m/s, speed walking
2 to 4 m/s, tumbling
< 3 m/s, cartwheels
2.6 m/s, skipping without rope
1.6 m/s, speed crawling

Apart from running and “running on all fours”, which are accurate speeds, the speeds could easily be out by 30%.
I’d love to see these speeds tested with a race (excluding straight running).

Running on all fours over 100 metres is much faster than the fastest Olympic speed walking record (over 10 km).

mollwollfumble said:

> So, in (roughly) what order would the gaits come in over a 100 metre course?

Rough guide, speed over a distance of 100 metres:
9.26 m/s, running
5.75 m/s, running on all fours
5.7 m/s, speed walking
2 to 4 m/s, tumbling
< 3 m/s, cartwheels
2.6 m/s, skipping without rope
1.6 m/s, speed crawling

Apart from running and “running on all fours”, which are accurate speeds, the speeds could easily be out by 30%.
I’d love to see these speeds tested with a race (excluding straight running).

Running on all fours over 100 metres is much faster than the fastest Olympic speed walking record (over 10 km).

I make the 100m running as 10.44m/s, the WR is 9.58s

2 to 4 m/s, tumbling
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this would be the fastest method. IMO

If they measured the distance the feet traveled, in two dimensions…

mollwollfumble said:

We’re familiar with the natural gaits of the horse: walk, trot, pace, canter, gallop.

The natural gaits of man include:
Walk, run, skip-without-rope, crawl, run on all fours, cartwheel & tumble.
The question I want answered is to put these in order of maximum speed over a fixed distance. Here are some records:

Fastest run on all fours (Nov 2012) 100 metres in 17.4 sec.
Fastest crawl (Nov 2009) 1 mile in 22 min 4 sec.
Fastest skip-without-rope (Dec 2011) 1 marathon (42.195 km) in 5 hr 55 min 13 sec.
I haven’t seen any speed records for cartwheels or tumbling (records are for number of cartwheels and difficulty of tumbling)

So, in (roughly) what order would the gaits come in over a 100 metre course?

Just on TV a few minutes ago:
Run on all fours – called “monkey run” – 25 metres in 4.7 sec, beating a runner (non-professional) over the same distance.
Longest “monkey run” by this person – half marathon (21 km).