Talk:Marching

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Can anyone add details about the pace and duration of most marches? I was just reading about marches in the French foreign legion that go up to 160 kilometers. I was wondering how that compares to, for example, the US military.

12.205.149.45 06:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marching Girl Sport

Are there any articles on the sport? And how did the sport "grow up"?

"In New Zealand and Australia a competitive sport involving teams of marching girls grew up and became established in the 1930s."

[edit] Technique?

I couldn't care less about the military aspects... I just came here in the hopes of finding some information on actual technique, i.e. what sets a march apart from a normal walk. Oddly gait (human) has more info on this than this article. Shinobu 06:47, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Technique? What technique?

Threre is no special technique for military marching, as march is not a special walking style, but a disciplined movement of organised troops (columns) to a specific destination (a zone or a front line). Not only foot soldiers can march, but any land units, therefore a column of tanks moving in an organised fashion is marching. Marching drill focuses on such aspects as route, way-points, rest points, pace, column spacing, rather than the technique itself.

Let us not confuse marching with parading.

89.101.182.88 19:42, 10 August 2007 (UTC) Dominik