Topic: Stutterstep

[HuoMaKe]

Stutterstep: When approaching a vault, wallrun, etc., a traceur notices his feet are in an incorrect rhythm for the move and corrects by shortening his stride dramatically for a few steps.

PS, surprised this isn't in here yet...

[psycosis12]

Lol, because it goes without saying. I stutterstep all the time but I've made it work for me. I get A LOT more power from a stutter-step than if I just book it towards the obstacle. I run, stutter, run

[Shamas]

Stutter stepping is bad, in my opinion. It takes away from alot of your technique and power. I'm trying to find ways to correct myself when I stutter step.

[David Glass]

Sorry to revive this thread, but I don't think anyone has mentioned any techniques to improve stutter-stepping.

I have major issues with this as well, but short of going to the obstacle, taking a few steps back, then going forward again, I don't know of any other way to prevent this... much less if I'm approaching an obstacle for the first time

[TR]

Sorry to revive this thread, but I don't think anyone has mentioned any techniques to improve stutter-stepping.

I have major issues with this as well, but short of going to the obstacle, taking a few steps back, then going forward again, I don't know of any other way to prevent this... much less if I'm approaching an obstacle for the first time

Just takes practice I suppose. You can try bigger strides. I don't know exactly, but if you look at high jumpers, at first they run, then they take HUGE strides, then run again and jump. I think they do this to get a better angle and placement on their jump, as well as to keep their speed/momentum. Stutter-stepping just slows you down and doesn't allow your body to, in a controlled way, keep the same speed/momentum as a bigger stride would. If I am wrong about the high-jumpers bit, anyone care to correct me as to why they take huge strides in the middle of their run? I have a feeling I am right though :]

[Travis Tetting]

I have the cure all for stutter steps:
These are all activities and exercises to eliminate stutter steps from your approaches.

1.) Line Drill.  I think the video is pretty self explanatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-v5KFcX4OM
Coolest thing about this one is that you can do it everywhere and nobody will know.  There is really no excuse not to be doing this drill at all times. 

2.) 3 Step Approaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX53jKgDxLQ

DRILL THESE HARDCORE!!!!  I have spent countless hours on my approaches which has ingrained them into my muscle memory.  Remember to practice left and right foot approaches.

Kudos for Ryan Ford for making awesome instructional videos.

[Joeson Wong]

The way I approach running towards an obstacle or before a flip is to take small strides at first, then progressively increase the length until you take large strides at the end. That's what one of my gymnastic friends told me and I also use this method and I greatly reduce the amount of stutter stepping I do.

Basically it's small steps in the beginning>>>Average running stride>>>Long stride

[KyleWP]

I've stopped stutter-stepping by taking a quick jump to place my feet before launching into the vault.

Urban Current actually addresses it in a Kong tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXH7FHfMCH0&feature=related

[Shamas]

I have the cure all for stutter steps:
These are all activities and exercises to eliminate stutter steps from your approaches.

1.) Line Drill.  I think the video is pretty self explanatory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-v5KFcX4OM
Coolest thing about this one is that you can do it everywhere and nobody will know.  There is really no excuse not to be doing this drill at all times. 

2.) 3 Step Approaches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX53jKgDxLQ

DRILL THESE HARDCORE!!!!  I have spent countless hours on my approaches which has ingrained them into my muscle memory.  Remember to practice left and right foot approaches.

Kudos for Ryan Ford for making awesome instructional videos.

I second that.

[Cody Beltramo]

I was actually thinking about this earlier this morning at work.  The way I usually avoid it is by focusing only on the last 3 or 4 steps.  I more or less go towards to obstacle at an easy to control pace, then when I know I'm about 3 steps away, gather power with those last steps.

[Shamas]

Steve Z. Taught me a good way to overcome the stutter-step. Its taking a couple regular strides then counting one two short strides .... i am doing a poor attempt at describing it. For better illustration you should PM him ... I will see if he can post his resource for this.

[Clinton@akparkour]

Instead of taking smaller steps to ajust your foot placement, take 2-3 bigger steps. allows you to keep or improve on your approch power and doesent make you look inexperienced at vaults and wall passe

[Team Avian]

the thing about the bigger strides to correct is that sometimes you dont have room for more strides... I found that the best way to fix the problem is to measure your stride at different speeds and have a good judge of distance (Things like trying to guess the distance then measuring it are good practice)

because, at walking pace your strides are relatively tiny compare to running speeds... so know your stride length, judge the distance... and then you can fairly accurately judge the number of steps that will get you to that object and thus know which foot to start on and so forth... that is how I fixed mine anyways

-Kyle(Rage)

[Mradhampir]

yea.... i do that lot.... it gets bad sometimes.. but ive been working on it

[CAMeron LOew]

NEVER STUTTER step this distroys your flow and gives you less velocity to do a wall run

[Clinton Swaim]

Demon's Drill for foot placement REALLY helped me with this. Try that, maybe it'll help for you guys.

http://www.americanparkour.com/content/view/1577/407/