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Walking Silently
- Breathe quietly. Unless congested, take slow and measured breaths from the nose. If congested, open your mouth wide and take deep controlled breaths. Never hold your breath while walking or running, always breathe.
- Watch the next place you will take a step. Be mindful of objects you are stepping on.
- Outside, try to walk on bare dirt or live grass. Dead foliage creates a perceptible "crunch" even when lightly stepped on. If you encounter an area where forced to walk through foliage, then pick the clearest path and proceed slowly, possibly bending over and removing obstructions from the location of the next step.
- Place the heel of your foot down first and roll your foot slowly and gently towards your toes onto the ground. If moving swiftly, run/leap from location to location in this manner. Avoid landing flatfooted. When moving backwards, this is reversed, so that the ball of the foot (the padded part just before the toes) is placed down first, and then the heel lowered to the ground. However, if speed is not an issue, walking flatfooted (putting your whole foot down at once) can be more quiet.
- Be sure your footwear fits properly. If your foot slides at all in your footwear, it can produce a squeaking noise, especially if your feet are sweaty.
- If unable to wear tight clothes, try to step without your pants rubbing together or rubbing against your skin as this can create noticeable noise in quiet situations.
- If you must make noise, perhaps because of loose clothing, try to make it as "natural" as possible. Short, sharp, or repetitious noises that characterize human movement can be broken into unrecognizable segments by varying your cadence or by dragging out the noise, making it more fluid and less human. This may be more applicable in urban environments where frequent background noise can mask your movements, allowing you to, in-effect, hide in the "shadows" of ambient noise.
- If your clothes make noise that cannot be helped, wait a moment before you walk, and try to take advantage of another distracting noise. Choose to move when another sound is more present, to mask your own noise.
- When you walk, you don't just walk with your foot; your entire body is involved, from arms and head for balance, to hips and torso for driving the leg movements, to the legs themselves for creating the distance. Play around with your stealth movements so that you build a picture of what works for you and what doesn't.
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