Backwards Marching ((full)) -
To stop, the final step is taken with the right foot, followed by closing the left foot to the right in a "down and in" motion, gently lowering your heels to the ground.
Famous drum majors (e.g., University of Texas’s “Big Bertha” carriers, or historically black college band directors) train for hundreds of hours to walk backwards across 100 yards without looking behind them more than once or twice. backwards marching
Researchers have built “backwards marching treadmills” with mirrors and virtual reality to retrain stroke survivors’ gait symmetry. To stop, the final step is taken with